I am British, and anti abortion save for where's the baby is severely ill, and would have a very diminished quality of life.
I believe that life starts at conception, and that every lots of a tragedy. I don't think of an early loss or abortion as equal to the loss of a baby, or I'd be a lot more horrified at the miscarriage rate (as sad as it is), so deep down, I don't think it's the same.
But later in pregnancy, I find it baffling that the worth of a life depends on its location, rather than development etc.
I (perhaps controversially) don't understand people who think that abortion is wrong, but think it's ok for other people to have one.
That logic doesn't work for any other area in life where sometimes actions directly affect others. Take the example of slavery - a few hundred years, you likely had people who wouldn't keep slaves themselves but wouldn't criticise those that did. We would see their ambivilence as wrong now now, as it did nothing to protect the slaves, who had little chance of protecting themselves.
Either it's a life that morally should be protected, or it's not. If someone truly believes that a foetus at a particular stage, has the same right to life as any other person, all foetuses at that stage should have equal protection.
I'm not vegetarian. But if I were a vegetarian because I felt the taking an animals life was wrong, I feel it was equally wrong for someone else to do it as me. Weirdly I respect the viewpoint more of very militant vegans, than those the claim killing an animal is a terrible thing but it's fine for others to do it.
That being said, as much as I am against abortion, my beliefs that an early abortion is not the same as taking a full life, mean I think it is acceptable to abort in the first trimester, or more accurately that it is a necessary legal option to have open in society, as sad as that makes me feel.
If abortion is limited to the first trimester, free and readily available pregnancy tests should be provided, including in public toilets. They would need to be a culture shift into women routinely checking, with a similar increased emphasis on contraception. Perhaps increased funding into making contraception more reliable - less unwanted pregnancies means everyone wins. Most importantly there needs to be proper support in place so those in difficult situations can afford to have their baby.
Ps: I was very religious and then lost my faith, and then it came (partially) back again. I was most pro life when I lost my faith. If there is a God then all those aborted foetuses could be sent straight to heaven or reincarnated as another baby. There's hope for them if there's a God that's supposed to love them. Without a God that's their one shot of existing gone.