Doakes Sunday: Conundrum
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Wisconsin lawmakers want to be certain doctors performing an abortion kill only one person at a time. They require abortion doctors to have hospital privileges, in case something goes wrong during an abortion and the mother needs to be whisked to the hospital.
Planned Parenthood says this places an undue burden on women seeking to exercise their Constitutional right to an abortion, and is suing.
Meanwhile, a federal judge in Washington, DC has ruled that a law requiring people to appear in person at a government office during government hours to be photographed and fingerprinted and re-registered every three years, does not unduly burden persons seeking to exercise their Constitutional right to keep and bear arms that someday might have the potential to kill someone in self-defense.
Both rulings are based on the Constitution so here’s my question: Why did the Founding Fathers insist it be easier to kill an innocent, than to prevent an innocent from being killed?
Joe Doakes
you’re only innocent”, really, when your story l supports the right agenda.
June 2nd, 2014 at 11:53 am
The RKBA one reminds me a little more of the controversy over voter ID. Let’s paraphrase:
“a law requiring people to appear in person at a government office during government hours to be photographed and fingerprinted and re-registered every three years, does not unduly burden persons seeking to exercise their Constitutional right to vote.”
OK, except we’re not demanding fingerprints or high fees for the right to vote.