I think in both cases people agree/disagree based almost entirely on how they have developed morally and ethically. It’s too complicated to convince anyone to change her/his views because it’d be undoing a lifetime’s worth of experiences (people you’ve met, what you’ve been through, who you’ve known, and experiencing through others ever since you can remember and those details are buried too far in the back of your memory to reference unlike a BBC article or an important legal document in pdf format).
Isn’t the gist of the pro-life and anti-gun arguments that other people can’t be trusted to run some aspect of their lives? That’s about the extent of the similarity, as far as I can see.
If guns didn’t actually kill anybody and everybody used it safely and legally, there would be no issues with it.
Abortion, though its legal and doesn’t kill anyone, and rather saves lives, will always be evil in the eyes of its opponents.
The difference between the two is obvious: one demands restrictions because of misuse, and the other opponents believe should be illegal due to its use
Devil’s advocate: All abortion does is kill, while guns have actually been used to save lives in a lot of cases.
I buy the analogy. If you accept that abortion rights are constitutionally protected, it seems similar in the aspects noted (I’ll ignore the ridiculous arguments that actually say abortion rights are protected by the Constitution for the moment, since that ship has long since sailed). Okay, now what?
If the abortion rights folks supported birth control they’d have me. People properly educated in the use of easily available birth control would be a lot less likely to require abortions. But they are against both - which I find hypocritical. Likewise, the anti-abortion folk seem to be predomenently pro-gun. There have been a remarkable number of people killed by the bad guys (any number of whom looked like “good guys” before they started shooting the place up and almost no instances of good guys stopping the bad guys by shooting them.
The arguements are no longer religious or logical. They are political. ""We hate you and all you stand for, so if you are for something, we’re a’gin it. Here in the South, in particular, you might be safe in the womb, but if you’re stupid enough to venture out and you are born with a physical problem with poor or middle class parents you don’t have healthcare, food, a decent wage, sympathy or support. OH! and the good Christians are doing missionary work in Africa and South America, etc, rather than trying to take care of their own here in the States - and then they complain about the US giving foreign aid.