You are right to point out the left’s hypocrisy regarding the tolerance for burdens placed on gun rights versus abortion rights. However, while you might wish to see abortion more rare or even illegal, if you are going to ask lefties to respect Second Amendment rights you need to be prepared to stand with them when burdens are added to the excercise of their rights. It is clear from your article you don’t believe abortion should have been given the status of a right, but that is its current legal status. Requiring a sonogram before having an abortion is clearly intended to discourage the procedure, even if only by adding cost and inconvenience to the citizen. As you note, this is exacty parallel to requiring gun purchasers to take safety tests or buy gun locks (whose actual use is not required). It is also analogous to the Jim Crow conditions placed on black voters such as poll taxes and “literacy tests”. If a citizen has right, that right should not be made conditional upon meeting some other arbitrary condition. So if you want to argue about making abortion illegal, do it separately from this argument. If you want to argue that abortion isn’t a right, do it separately from this argument. But if you want to enlist the help of lefties in seeing 2nd Amendment rights respected you should acknowledge that they are correct that requiring a sonogram prior to having an abortion is an unconstitutional infringement.
