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96. South Dakota Spends $170,000 Defending Anti-Choice Law

Tue Feb 25, 2014, 12:20 PM

Feb 2014

http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2014/02/24/south-dakota-spends-170000-defending-anti-choice-law/
South Dakota Spends $170,000 Defending Anti-Choice Law
by Sharona Coutts, Director of Investigations and Research, RH Reality Check
February 24, 2014

The State of South Dakota has spent $170,000 in taxpayer money since 2011 defending a single anti-choice law, according to new figures from the state attorney general obtained by RH Reality Check.

The amount is based on the number of hours that staff attorneys in South Dakota’s Office of the Attorney General have spent working on HB 1217, a bill linked to controversial lawyer Harold Cassidy.

That bill contains numerous provisions that have been slammed by doctors and reproductive rights advocates. It forces women seeking abortions to wait 72 hours between their first consultation with a doctor, and when the doctor may perform the abortion. It also obliges doctors to “inform” the woman that abortion is linked to suicide, even though the medical consensus is that such claims are false.

Possibly the most controversial provision, however, is the requirement for women to receive “counseling” from an anti-choice crisis pregnancy center as a condition of accessing abortion.... MORE

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Mom Charged For Helping Daughter Obtain Illegal Abortion: Is This Our New Reality? [View all] demmiblue Feb 2014 OP

'They' have been doing their damnedest to defeat Roe, elleng Feb 2014 #1

This story does not make sense yeoman6987 Feb 2014 #76

No. It's the "Old Reality" fredamae Feb 2014 #2

going backward kardonb Feb 2014 #7

Women are to be Controlled fredamae Feb 2014 #11

Repubs are bullies coldbeer Feb 2014 #35

Yes, they are fredamae Feb 2014 #44

Soon we'll be back to coat hanger abortions, unsanitary back room quack alley doctors and RKP5637 Feb 2014 #3

The unsanitary, incompetent doctor is already a reality. tblue37 Feb 2014 #54

This statement says it better than I ever could. theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #56

Exactly. cui bono Feb 2014 #73

This is really frightening gollygee Feb 2014 #4

It's very disturbing. nt laundry_queen Feb 2014 #24

Things just keep getting worse. redqueen Feb 2014 #5

Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2014 #61

Yes! theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #6

Please do. This is the opening salvo in an ugly war. DFW Feb 2014 #22

It's worth pointing out that had the woman killed her daughter JoeyT Feb 2014 #8

If I'm misunderstanding, I'm sorry. Half-Century Man Feb 2014 #13

why did you ask that? Schema Thing Feb 2014 #15

In reaction to the title of the response. Half-Century Man Feb 2014 #18

gotcha Schema Thing Feb 2014 #19

Don't feel bad alcina Feb 2014 #20

Flipped the "had' and "the" repeatedly. Half-Century Man Feb 2014 #25

I'm saying that in the same state that a woman is being charged for JoeyT Feb 2014 #17

Be sure to thank the Catholic Church warrant46 Feb 2014 #9

Unless the Catholic Church did something specific in this state, I wouldn't claim it was Catholic okaawhatever Feb 2014 #33

READ THE ARTICLE warrant46 Feb 2014 #40

I'd call this political lobbying, wouldn't you? theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #43

Sorry, no free pass theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #42

I wasn't making excuses. I was however, unaware of the Catholic church's role in passing okaawhatever Feb 2014 #45

They are trying to rewrite it everywhere theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #46

I understand and am well aware of what they're doing to harm reproductive rights. The omnibus bill okaawhatever Feb 2014 #47

Hi again... theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #49

Thanks for this. I'll gladly read these articles and bookmark them. nt okaawhatever Feb 2014 #50

Here are some more of those links I promised theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #78

You are absolutely right about Pennsylvania warrant46 Feb 2014 #57

Exactly. Dawson Leery Feb 2014 #70

Just like Uganda, it is both Evangelicals and the RCC, not one to the exclusion of the other Bluenorthwest Feb 2014 #77

No. It's not the Catholics in Uganda. DirkGently Feb 2014 #81

Probably because of stuff like this theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #82

I think it has already been well documented etherealtruth Feb 2014 #86

No, thank the (fill in the blank) church... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2014 #39

hello El Salvador. BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2014 #10

Ten years ago, murielm99 Feb 2014 #12

Are you talking about Becky Bell? (nt) Control-Z Feb 2014 #30

I don't remember her name. murielm99 Feb 2014 #67

Fight back, folks, and donate -- please! theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #14

I do, I do and I do! n/t DFW Feb 2014 #23

I don't know how to set up an online donor site but Erda Feb 2014 #27

. demmiblue Feb 2014 #32

Life in these fascist United States. Schema Thing Feb 2014 #16

The GOP is the Wire Hanger Party. nt TeamPooka Feb 2014 #21

Sale on bonnets and Pilgrim dresses at Banana Republican! valerief Feb 2014 #26

And special discounts on scarlet letters! theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #29

k&r n/t RainDog Feb 2014 #28

Retro active charges PatrynXX Feb 2014 #31

How sick. Right wing fundies are a bunch of sickos. nt Sarah Ibarruri Feb 2014 #34

K&R RBStevens Feb 2014 #36

This is very sad... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2014 #37

So the private prisons have a whole new category of prisoners to make money from. Kablooie Feb 2014 #38

It's not 'the new reality'. randome Feb 2014 #41

Horrendous story karynnj Feb 2014 #48

If there are no clinics, there can be no abortions theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #51

No safe abortions sarge43 Feb 2014 #52

Yes. You are absolutely right. theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #53

I completely understand that -- what I was speaking of was my reaction to karynnj Feb 2014 #55

There have been and will always be abortions. Autumn Feb 2014 #69

The GOP "Rollback Club" doesn't ever quit its job. We shouldn't quit ours, either. blkmusclmachine Feb 2014 #58

They're still pining for the antebellum South theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #60

we're headed straight back into the fifties.... spanone Feb 2014 #59

Post removed Post removed Feb 2014 #62

"It's amazing how hard we make it for women to kill their own children these days" demmiblue Feb 2014 #63

I wonder why we allow people to use corpses as fetal incubators. pnwmom Feb 2014 #65

How did the law find out about this? Ilsa Feb 2014 #64

According to one of the links in the article: demmiblue Feb 2014 #66

The RW beat marches on ad nausea indepat Feb 2014 #68

Sooooo......a fetus's rights trump a fully-formed human being's? AngryDem001 Feb 2014 #71

She's a "bad mother" no matter what, in right wingers' eyes, alp227 Feb 2014 #72

What a sick, politically motivated prosecution! another_liberal Feb 2014 #74

This poignant ad give us a peek at the dominionist wet dream. Snarkoleptic Feb 2014 #75

Powerful. Thanks for sharing this. theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #79

It's ba-a-a-a-ck. Eleanors38 Feb 2014 #80

The only reason they have been charged... gerogie2 Feb 2014 #83

There is great wisdom in what you say etherealtruth Feb 2014 #87

Here's one victory, at least... theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #84

Sunday afternoon kick theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #85

Kicking theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #88

Women have a new ally theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #89

Kick and Record davidpdx Feb 2014 #90

The anti choice crowd won't be sufrommich Feb 2014 #91

In some parts of the country we're practically there theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #92

The same crowd that effectively shuts down sufrommich Feb 2014 #93

Couldn't agree more theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #94

Daily kick theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #95

South Dakota Spends $170,000 Defending Anti-Choice Law theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #96