I will give you this it has gotten much better lately. But you have done it.

You’ve said this a couple of times richard and since then we’ve had a couple of good conversations. I had only had problems with trolls and partisan nuisances. I would appreciate it if you kept that in mind.

I didn’t say it isn’t being done. I asked what right the state has to require a 24-hour waiting period?

With a firearm at least it makes some marginal sense if you accept the need for a criminal background check, etc.

And there’s a difference between a municipality requiring a permit for a rally and their requiring a waiting period before you can open your mouth.

I loathe abortion (except in the case of incest a/o rape), but that isn’t the point. This is just another attempt by the pro-life folks to place a limitation of the exercising of a constitutional right. A limitation which, by the way, serves no useful purpose relative to the abortion itself.

You have a perfect right to not see abortion as a right. What you don’t have is the right to hold anyone else to that standard nor to unreasonably restrict their exercising the right.

Regards…

The right granted under Roe v Wade, of course.

When you don’t believe that abortion is a constitutional right this argument doesn’t apply.

Of course it applies, Rob, to everyone else but you. Since you aren’t the arbiter of what is and isn’t a ‘right’ your opinion is simply that…an opinion…and carries no legal weight.

If we can agree that a waiting period for a background check is a reasonable request to make before a citizen exercises their 2nd amendment right how is asking a mother to wait 24 hours before killing her unborn child an unreasonable request?

The waiting period for the background check serves a recognizable purpose; we don’t want felons, etc. buying weapons. What is the recognizable purpose for the waiting period before a mother can kill her unborn child?

Regards…

Like it or not Roe v Wade found that women have a constitutional right to an abortion. That being said, why should the state have a right to dictate she has to wait 24 hours? You wouldn’t be in favor of a 24 hour waiting period before you could exercise your right to free speak would you?

It’s like Hillary (and others) who spout they want abortions to be “legal, safe, and rare.” That always strikes me as disingenuous. If it’s a constitutional right then why should it be rare? Why would you want it to be?

My point being, you can’t have it both ways.

Regards…

Even the picture thing every time I think about messing around on my wife I look at a picture of the fat cow and it stops me dead in my tracks.

Just kidding honey.

I don’t mean to trivialize this, Rob, and I agree with your end desire; that the number of abortions be reduced.

My concern is that we oughtn’t get to pick and choose which ‘rights’ we accept/reject, especially for others. And we need to be damned careful how/when we go about placing restrictions on them. What goes around, comes around.

If you have heartburn with Roe v Wade (and I certainly do), work to overturn it. Don’t limit (no matter how morally ‘correct’ you think you are) others’ right to exercise it.

Regards…

If the above is true, what’s the need for legislating a waiting period?