Bill Barrow, of the Associated Press, compares the fight over abortion with the fight over gun control. He writes:
Republican-controlled states typically make it harder to procure an abortion but easier to buy weapons and carry them where you please. Live in a state where Democrats run things? You’re less likely to have a waiting period before ending a pregnancy but more likely to have one before buying a gun, and you may not to be able to buy certain semi-automatic weapons at all.
Mr. Barrow goes on and on with his red-state/blue-state comparisons but he ignores the central issues. The right to self-defense is an inherent human right but that right is meaningless without legal access to the tools necessary for self-defense, such as a gun. In addition, the right “to keep and bear arms” is actually explicitly protected in the US Constitution.
Abortion, on the other hand, is not protected by the US Constitution for good reason. The "right" to kill unborn babies is not a human right. How can a mother have the right to intentionally kill her own child?
