Petition filing could halt S. Dakota abortion ban

[deadparrot]

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - South Dakota abortion rights supporters said they will file a petition on Tuesday to halt -- at least temporarily -- a new ban on abortion in the state, which became law in March as a direct challenge to the 1973 Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortion.

The South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families said it had obtained nearly 38,000 signatures on a petition aimed at repealing an abortion ban signed into law by Gov. Mike Rounds on March 6.

The petition would be filed with the Secretary of State's office on Tuesday afternoon, and if at least 16,728 signatures are certified as valid, the scheduled July 1 implementation of the ban would be nullified and voters would be allowed to decide the issue at the ballot box in November.

"This law is just not feasible and is just very extreme," said Dr. Maria Bell, an obstetrician who helped sponsor the petition drive, in a press conference.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060530/ts_nm/rights_abortion_dc

[tives12]

1. Maybe there is hope afterall

If they can get 38,000 signatures then we should be able to get millions of signatures against any possible national ban.

[jayfish]

2. I Predict...

that only 16,727 signatures will be certified as valid.

Jay

[rodeodance]

3. they need to vote out every politian who voted for this bill!

[panader0]

4. When they put it on the ballot

they should only allow women to vote.

[heidler1]

5. I agree. Men tend to live in a fantasy world resembling the Talaban.

[Renew Deal]

7. Does that include the testicled ones at DU?

Just want to know what your unsupported generalization includes.

[heidler1]

8. OK, I'm a 80 year heterosexual man and I have noticed that

way more men than other women think that they need to control pregnant women's bodies. Seeing how only women get pregnant men have no idea how in a moment of passion a woman can get sucked into a unwanted lifetime of commitment. If this natural passion was not overwhelmingly strong enough to brush aside religion, morality and staying a virgin this problem would not exist, but it does exist.

[Renew Deal]

6. Bullshit

But you already knew that.