Symbiotes

Gun Rights and Pro Lifers.

We have a symbiotic realtionship while both issues are hashed out in the courts.

Pro choice gunnies would call it parasitic.  So would gun banning pro lifers.

We are symbiotic in that judges that rule according to rights of man tend to, right now, lean both to protecting human life by protecting self-defense rights and the right to live for at least some fetal stage level.   Its just how it has worked out.  It's hard to find a liberal-liberty activist judge all for abortion and all for armed self defense.  More likely to find a anti abortion judge that also doesn't like guns, but those are rare too because of ways American judicial philosophy has evolved.

So when one single-issue faction gets a judge on the court, the other side is generally happy.  Both sides win.

If abortion shifts to legislatures then that relationship is broken.  If SCOTUS sends the abortion debate back to the lawmakers then abortion activists on both sides will concentrate on swaying Congress critters and Assembly whoseywhatsits. 

Gunnies will no longer have allies fighting for judges.  Our enemies the gun banners will no longer have pro-lifers as allies.  But the net loss of enthusiasm getting 'right thinking' judges is more detrimental to the Conservative Constitutional side of the spectrum than it is to the Leftist Activist side, if Roe is set aside.  Methinks.  The other side, minus abortion types, still has much deeper pockets. 

I hope Gun Rights and Pro Lifers, if they get issue-settling rulings, both get those ruling at about the same time.  Or both recognize you can't let up the judicial pressure as the other side will come back if you let off any.