SD legislature to consider abortion ban

[nodehopper]

In the next six weeks, South Dakota lawmakers will decide whether to make abortion a crime.

A bill that would ban abortion in the state will be introduced within the next two days.

The bill will be called the Woman's Health and Life Protection Act. It will ban abortion, but won't prosecute a doctor who performs one to save a woman's life.

And the lawmaker who's introducing the bill says he thinks now is the right time to try and over-turn Roe vs Wade.

Rep. Roger Hunt says, "Abortion should be banned." /snip

more here

http://www.keloland.com/NewsDetail2817.cfm?Id=0,45410

Oh, South Dakota just can't wait, can it?

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. A good Orwellian bill title

Because banning abortion will worsen women's health, and put some of their lives at risk, since there will inevitably be illegal abortions done in dangerous ways.

[nodehopper]

2. yeah, seriously, right?

[CTyankee]

3. So Roe won't be overturned, eh?

Everything is A-OK, don't worry, la la la.

It seems to me that these REpubs know something. They are doing this according to the grand plan handed down to them from the RNC. Have your laws banning abortion in place so no time will be wasted in recriminalizing abortion once Roe goes down.

Oh, and if anyone challenges the state law, like this one, then it will go to a federal court and then right up to the Supreme Court, providing a perfect vehicle to re-decide Roe!

[nodehopper]

5. I think so too, I am afraid you are right

this is so much more direct than trying to just push out abortion providers through bureocracy like they do in Mississippi, I mean, in SD 98% of women don't have access to abortions anyway locally, this is trying to deliver a coup de grace, and actually RE-CRIMINALIZE it, as opposed to just delegalizing it or making it go away de facto.

[Cobalt Violet]

9. I feel your right about this.

It's part of the plot.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

4. How many states is this, now? Three?

Does the SD bill have a ban against going across state lines?

[nodehopper]

6. what are the other states right now?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

7. I'm going by memory

but Ohio, and I think I heard reference to Indiana. And Ohio wants to make it illegal to transport a woman across state lines to have one.

[nodehopper]

8. oh, that's right, I forgot about the Ohio travesty.

[donsu]

10. are the women of S.D. going to let this happen?

or are they too uneducated to even know to care?

[High Plains]

11. South Dakota already has a law making abortion illegal as soon

as Roe is overturned. They're chomping at the bit. In fact, there's only one place in the state where you can get an abortion, in Sioux Falls, and doctors have to come in from Minnesota to perform them because SD docs are scared to death.

South Dakota is where my family lives and where I'm registered to vote. The same thing is the matter with South Dakota as with Kansas.

During the 2004 campaign, Republicans were throwing money around like crazy, basically telling us that if we voted for Daschle we'd all have to marry gay guys and burn flags at the wedding.

There are some good people in South Dakota, but it's a fucking loser state. I vote there, but I sure as hell can't stand to spend much time there.

[saigon68]

12. Isn't this the state where the Ex-Gov killed someone when drunk

with his car?

[High Plains]

15. Yep. That would be Bill Janklow (R)

who was a sitting congressman at the time. He wasn't drunk, but he was speeding down a country road, blew through a stop sign, and killed a motorcyclist. I think he did 30 or 60 days in jail. Now he get's his law license back.

There was some other congressman from another state who got busted not too long ago for drunk driving, but he didn't kill anyone.

[Megahurtz]

14. I'm so glad I

live in California. They wouldn't even put up with that legalizing abortion shit here!
Unless Alito does get in and seal the deal for everyone, then all hell will break loose.

[VegasWolf]

13. Just waiting for the arrival of Alito to seal the deal! nt

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[Yavin4]

16. States Like SD Will Find Themselves With A Whole Lot of Unwanted Children

that the state will have to take care of. Women have abortions because they cannot care for a child in their present state, and adoption is not a viable option. Thus, these anti-abortion states will find themselves getting poorer and poorer because of the additional children that they will have to care for directly.