As far as the death penalty is concerned vs. abortion, I would probably contend the volume of one compared to the other probably can account for the difference in attention, and domestic issues usually garner more attention in general than foreign affairs.

You'd have to poll opinions amongst Catholics and canvas questions over the variety of life related issues to get a clearer picture.

But that's against your methods, which are to take personal impression and blunt force 'gut' feelings as gospel.

Seeing an apparent (and unexamined) discrepancy as proof-positive your broad-ranging assertions are worth having and sharing is taking a page from truther logic 101.