Making a statement of fact that favored policies would reduce abortions implies that the reduction of abortions would be good-- otherwise, why state the fact? If the reduction of abortions was bad, wouldn't the fact that said policies would reduce them, reflect poorly on those policies?
I'm a pro-choice Democrat and I want abortions to be rare. I am not pro-abortion; I am anti-abortion. But my reasons for wanting it to be rare--that most aborted fetuses would otherwise be future Democratic voters (disproportionately poor, minority ethnicities, and grow up in secular households), are probably best not stated as a part of a platform. It implies a willingness to use people's lives as a political tool, and I can see how some people would find that distasteful. But it doesn't change the fact that I'd like to see fewer abortions.
Poor, minority households are overwhelmingly religious by statistics, not secular. As for Pelosi's comment, good outreach to pro-life Dems although they are fewer in number than in decades past. This was a grab for independent voters.
