These conflicts are related to our basic masculine and feminine drives. These conflicts even relate to our long term history. We were told to be fruitful and multiply in the old testament of the Bible. In new testament times, we have over multiplied. But then, we still have a lot of old testament thinking.
Masculinity is certainly concerned with their right to their guns, their phallic symbol.
They need their guns to be in control, to be a warrior archetype with the function of protecting their community. Since understand putting their life on the line to protect lives, one can understand their interest in right to life. One can understand their biological imperative to reproduce and protect. One can understand their low little interest in welfare, since that is the function of the feminine side. The feminine side is certainly interested in choice, they want to choose who's children they bear and nurse.