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I'm not saying abortion isn't justifiable, because I think in some cases it is otherwise I wouldn't be pro-choice. I think people need to accept that they are killing something that could become like them, and not hide behind scientific rhetoric.
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I agree with you, in principle.
I think that pro-lifers tend to assume that pro-choicers are unthinkingly supportive of abortion and that they don't consider the moral aspect. And I think that many pro-choicers who formed their opinions in-principle don't realise quite the level of ethical uncertainty that people actually considering abortion face.
Everyone I have met (or whose writings I have read) who has actually faced the prospect of aborting a fetus has said how troubled they were by the decision and how guilty they felt afterwards. If they became pregnant again, some of them would choose not abort and others would make the same choice again. But almost all of them still support legalising abortion; ultimately it comes down to freedom of the individual to make their own ethical decision and not have the state dictating it for others.