If you ask someone who claims to be “pro-life” (we’ll call him Ted) why he opposes gun regulations, he will tell you, in effect, that freedom for law-abiding people is more important than the protection of life. But if you then ask him why he wants to crush the freedom to have an abortion, he will tell you that he believes human life is sacred.
Yeah, right! What he really means is that he believes in a hierarchical society, with God at the top, white Christian men immediately below Him, and everyone else way below that. The purpose of government, in his eyes, is to keep things that way. Scripture and self-interest coincide.