Still, as Tish Harrison Warren pointed out on Twitter after the March for Life, there’s a whole cohort of diverse “pro-life” advocates who do not fit the Republican stereotype — and they are working outside of politics and policy in an effort to shape and reform our country’s abortion position. Organizations such as the New Wave Feminists, Consistent Life Network, Latinos4Life and others are working around the nation to support women and the unborn. Some Christian pregnancy centers are expanding their services to women, so that they can offer contraception as well as other forms of counseling or maternity care. A Tennessee pregnancy center profiled by The New York Times last year focuses its energies on providing baby supplies and other material supports to needy mothers (something I also observed at a local pregnancy resource center growing up).

In 2014, half of the women in America who had abortions lived in poverty, and a 2005 Guttmacher Institute study found that approximately one-quarter of women who had an abortion said they did so because they could not afford to have a baby. It would make sense, then, that this might be an issue fought best not just through anti-abortion policy but also through efforts, at both the local and national levels, to empower and support women who need better health care access, better wages and better community supports.

This year’s presidential election demonstrates the power of our political moment to turn every issue — no matter how complex, painful or important — into a series of talking points, into opportunities to cast blame and castigate. Seeing the vitriol flow back and forth on Twitter or Facebook makes it hard to imagine how we could discuss abortion in a civil, compassionate manner.

There is a third way: It would transform Mr. Trump’s March for Life speech from appealing rhetoric aimed at procuring votes into an entire way of living and serving people in need of support. Local activists supporting prospective mothers emotionally and financially, providing free baby formula and clothing, advocating for paid family leave, providing child care or seeking to help cover expensive medical bills indeed “embrace mothers with care and compassion,” as Mr. Trump put it, and “defend the right of every child, born and unborn, to fulfill their God-given potential.”

For the “proud pro-life Democrat,” as well as the resolute anti-abortion conservative, this could be a better path forward than any we are likely to find during the 2020 presidential election season. It will offer hope and a path forward for the future, no matter who wins the presidency. And it will support mothers and their children in a way policies never can.

So while the “politically homeless” may not have a perfect candidate to vote for this year, there’s still plenty of work to be done.