These "pro-life" Democrats are kind of a joke anyway. Almost all of them vote to confirm pro-choice judges and generally vote for pro-choice policies. Tim Kaine is a great example. You can tell people that you're pro-life and "personally opposed to abortion" all you want....but pro-life (my understanding of it) is that abortion is murder (and therefore, the United States allows the genocide of millions of babies). It takes a suspension of disbelief to really buy that these Democrats (or some of these moderate "pro-life" Republicans) are really against abortion and not just taking a tactical position.

virginia, would an abortion-reduction clause meet your standards for "pro-life Ds"?  

"We believe that abortion is a tragedy.  We are against the criminalization of abortions, which would likely drive women seeking them into a black market with horrible consequences for mothers and doctors.  However, the D Party will enact a set of policies -- maternity leave, income supports, free family planning and maternal healthcare, adoption incentives, etc. -- that will reduce the overall number of abortions in the next four years."

Don't get me wrong... the hardcore pro-choicers would flip.  But I think it's worth pressing back on softer pro-life folks -- 1) do you want to make a symbolic point or do you want to actually reduce the number or abortions?  2) do you really think that criminalizing abortion will reduce its occurance?  3) what would be the effect of an abortion ban be on people of different classes (i.e., the corporate vice president's daughter will still get one) and is that fair?  

And contraception is a great "wedge issue" for our side: break off hardcore, anti-sex fundamentalists from a much larger group of people who see many abortions as a particularly grotesque form of birth control.  Good policy; good politics.