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I don't think you have to be pro choice to be a liberal either, not if you define a liberal as someone who is in favor of a strong central government.  I really don't think you have to reject global climate change or evolution in order to be a conservative, either, despite my somewhat tongue in cheek threads and posts.

However, it is pretty predictable that someone calling themselves "liberal" is going to be pro choice, and that someone calling themselves "conservative" is going to be a non believer when it comes to evolution and climate change.  There may not be a "requirement", but those unrelated positions do seem to be related, at least in many people's minds.

What I really think is that the terms "conservative" and "liberal" are so elastic as to have no meaning at all.  "Communists" are "liberals"???  There wasn't much liberal about the Communists of the old Soviet Union, not unless your definition is simply, anyone who favors a strong central government.  Is modern China "liberal"?  What about Iran, is that a liberal country?  

The working definition of liberal I see in some of the posts is not the opposite of conservative, but the opposite of libertarian.