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Kentucky woman sues state over abortion ban so she can terminate her pregnancy (www.kentucky.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A Kentucky woman Friday filed an emergency class-action lawsuit, asking a Jefferson County judge to allow her to terminate her pregnancy. It’s the first lawsuit of its kind in Kentucky since the state banned nearly all abortions in 2022 and one of the only times nationwide since before Roe v. Wade in 1973 that an adult woman has asked a court to intervene on her behalf and allow her to get an abortion.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But the meaning isn't even relevant because the "right to bear arms" isn't bound by it:

Ah yes, the old "half the amendment is just there for decoration" argument. That's where I stopped reading. You're a lost cause.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Not my fault you didn't pay attention in English classes when you were in school :/

Also I clearly stated why it was there – as a good reasoning for the amendment existing and emphasising the amendment's importance to the security of the state. It's right next to the most important freedom (to the writers), the freedom of speech, it's important to explain why they find it so essential.

Listen, you can have whatever stance you want on gun rights or whatever, but you can't just make up your own reality and twist linguistics to fit your perception. I'm very pro-strict-gun-control, as already stated, I'm extremely left-leaning, if anything interpreting the 2nd Amendment factually and accepting it not only applying to militias is more of a detriment to my political goals, but I'm not going to take that and decide that it's better to twist basic grammar to my liking. You can't just treat the 2nd Amendment syntactically differently from any other sentence for no reason. Linguistics isn't a political tool, it's a science (unless you're a prescriptivist).