Defense/Life Compromise Bill

          Defense/Life Compromise Bill

A Modest Proposal, with Commentary

 

Section 1.

Both of the sections below apply, or neither.

         

Section 2.

A.  The right of free citizens to keep and bear arms in a well-regulated State militia shall not be infringed.

B.  Well-regulated militias shall not armed the underaged, nor those guilty of treason as defined by the Constitution.

C.  States have the right to enforce additional regulation of their militias.

 

Section 3.

A.  Women have the right to abort in the first trimester.

B.  Women have the right to abort in any trimester in the case of rape, incest, or to protect the health of the woman.

C.  States have the right to regulate abortions in the second trimester.

D.  The only third-trimester abortions shall be in the case of rape, incest, or to protect the health of the woman.

 

Commentary:

The “Defense/Life Rights Bill” modestly proposes a compromise between the right to self-defense, and the right to life. It does so in two areas: weapons and abortion. 

The compromise proposed for weapons is merely the original Second Amendment, rewritten as a single clause for clarity. This explicitly links right to bear arms, with well-regulated militia. The second clause affirms some necessary regulations for militia: no children, and no traitors. The third clause makes gun control a matter of state’s rights.

The compromise proposed for abortions is merely Roe v. Wade.

Tying together these is section 1, which says that both sections apply, or neither. So this is a double-balanced proposal: balanced between guns and abortions, and within those, balanced between rights and responsibility.

Both sections involve defense of property. The use of guns for this is a commonplace; and abortion is defense of a woman’s most private property. And men, beware! If Church and State get their clammy little hands on women’s most private property, then next they’ll grab at men’s most private property!

I give out this Modest Proposal without expectation of it being adopted in a Trump presidency, or that it would have been adopted in a Harris presidency. This is simply my expression of what I see as right and true. And who knows? The one thing guaranteed from Trump is chaos. Anything can happen.