South Dakota ready to ban abortion...

[cynatnite]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- One brave legislator who voted against freight-train legislation that would ban nearly all abortions in South Dakota said what others were undoubtedly thinking: Vote no and risk political wrath at the polls.

Rep. Burt Elliott, a Democrat from Aberdeen, uttered the remark Thursday during tense debate of the legislation, which passed the House 47-22, unscathed by several attempts to temper the measure.

"How you vote on this is going to be used in campaign fodder against you," Elliott remarked, drawing a rebuke from Rep. Larry Rhoden, a Union Center Republican rancher who leads the House GOP.

"I'm offended that anybody on this floor would accuse us of being political on this issue," Rhoden said. "We're debating this based on our own personal beliefs."

Elliott, a teacher, said he opposes abortion but could not vote for HB1215 because the House refused to provide an exemption for victims of rape and incest.

http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2006/02/10/news/latest_news/d375a5f99c8cba1786257111004d7606.txt

How long until this hits the SCOTUS?

I read not long ago thousands of women have died from unsafe abortions around the world due to the policies of the bush administration. Africa has been especially hard hit.

:cry:

[CatholicEdHead]

1. A matter of months?

This was planned to hit the Supreme Court and have the court re-rule on it.

[rodeodance]

2. this onslaught (er) begin the day after Alito was sworn in.

[whathappened]

3. what about the part

we are debateing this on our own personal veiws , i thought these people we working for we the people

[dsc]

4. Bush deserves blame for a lot of things

illegal abortions in Africa isn't one of them. Africa hasn't changed its abortion policy since Bush has been in office and even under Clinton we didn't fund legal abortions.

[cynatnite]

7. but didn't the US fund clinics...

that advised and helped women get access to safe abortions, plus provide birth control and educate them?

[dsc]

12. I don't think we funded them under Clinton either

thanks to Chris Smith of New Jersey.

[Maat]

5. I that any law like this will be stayed - almost immediately.

Currently, it would be unconstitutional to apply it.

It would first be challenged in a lower court; it would have to go up through the state's court's first, I believe.

It IS, however, what is called a trigger law, and would take effect if "Roe v. Wade" were ever overturned.

[FreedomAngel82]

6. I can't stand it!

Don't like abortion? DON'T HAVE ONE! Geez!

[politicat]

8. This is SO stupid: SD doesn't even HAVE a permanent abortion provider.

Women from SD who need abortions will do the same thing they've been doing: come to Colorado or go to Wichita, Kansas to get their abortions. And we in Colorado will continue to host them and make their stays as comfortable and easy as possible. (There is a single clinic in Sioux Falls that does abortions, but the providers are from out of state, and for anyone on the Western side of the state, Boulder, Colorado is closer.)

This is such a grandstanding, politically motivated bill it's not even funny. South Dakota representatives need to stand up to the idiot who proposed this and their constituents who would try to hang them over this. It doesn't affect anything.

And what's triply idiotic... there are forced-birthers in South Dakota who are convinced that hundreds of thousands of baaaaaybies are aborted hourly by women who got pregnant intentionally to either kill it ten minutes before it would have been born, or to sue the bewildered, non-condom-wearing Good, All-Suffering Father (TM) for millions in child support. :sarcasm:

[BushOut06]

11. It's an empty gesture. But it will encourage other states to follow suit

It was pretty easy for SD to do this, they don't really have to worry about abortions anyways. But this will make it easier for other states to follow suit. "Look, South Dakota did it, why don't we try it?" will be the question asked in state legislatures around the country.

[Mend]

9. every woman in SD should pack up and leave and

take their daughters with them. The men can screw their sheep...they won't get pregnant. Voila, no abortions.

[Katherine Brengle]

10. 40 years of work and legislation down the toilet... i hope people are

ready to fight again.