twitchy.com by Brett T.
OK, so you’re asking: how does one work abortion into the Second Amendment? Professor Mary Anne Franks has a piece in the Boston Globe in which she rewrites both the First and Second Amendments, and she reimagines the Second Amendment to be less about arms and militias and more about bodily autonomy, such as the right to not get shot and the right to an abortion.
Editing the Constitution | Redo the first two amendments – The Boston Globe https://t.co/27qEqbuAcy
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Franks writes:
The Second Amendment’s idiosyncratic and anachronistic focus on militias and “arms” degrades the concept of self-defense. The right to safeguard one’s life should not be conflated with or reduced to the right to use a weapon, especially a weapon that is so much more likely to inflict injury and death than to avoid it. Far better would be an amendment that guarantees a meaningful right to bodily autonomy and obligates the government to implement reasonable measures to protect public health and safety…
