What can we do about South Dakota? (Boycott?)

[progressivebydesign]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/ABORTION_SOUTH_DAKOTA?SITE=KING&TEMPLATE=USHEADS.html&SECTION=HOME

I know that this issue was discussed on another thread, in relation to Roe v. Wade. I'd like to ask fellow DUers, what WE can do to try and stop this Draconian legislation from becoming reality. A WOMAN (a DEMOCRAT!), actually sponsored this bill. Rape victims, victims of spousal abuse, incest victims, will ALL be forced into pregnancy! How about women who are mentally ill, will they be forced to have babies? Retarded women who are victims of abuse, will they be forced to carry a child only to have it taken away? Does South Dakota have a huge network of adoption options? How about abandoned and abused kids, will they be cared for when the women forced to have them turn on them?

[PuraVidaDreamin]

1. Get the woman bikers to boycott Sturgis this year in Badlands

and get their partners to boycott as well!

[Botany]

2. Good thinking ....

.... a nationwide Boycott of Sturgis.

Women say yes to Bikers who say no to Sturgis.

[IsItJustMe]

12. A creative and awsome idea.

[Katherine Brengle]

14. I honestly think you are on to something--I imagine this would be a

serious blow to the SD economy--don't like 100,000 bikers attend this thing every year?

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

23. Excellent. Wish I could nominate your post! nt

[PuraVidaDreamin]

31. I'll do it for you

nominated

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

32. Can you post this idea as a thread topic? Maybe in the Activist forum or

a forum that bikers might read. I looked around and couldn't find any DU biker's group but maybe I missed something.

It's a great idea!

[efhmc]

3. That is a horrible law. It treats women as incubators and not as human

beings with their own thoughts and ideas and needs. But as to boycotting, what exactly is there for the rest of America to boycott in S. Dakota. There are only about 4 people there. It is never a place I would visit. Do they make or grow anything that we can pinpoint? Disgusting to think that such a small entity could bring down the freedoms of more than 50% of the population.

[Lars39]

4. At the very least call and write SD's state board of tourism

to tell them that while you had been considering visiting SD on your vacation, you will now spend your vacation dollars elsewhere.
Be sure to put an amount in there so they can squirm at the lost revenue.

Here's the contact info:

Department of Tourism and State Development

James D. Hagen, Secretary
711 E. Wells Ave.
Pierre, SD 57501-3369
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

[Pacifist Patriot]

35. Consider it done.

[MadMaddie]

5. I think they need to be hit in the wallet...

If they are forcing women who are victims of crime to carry out these births, then the victim should get every name of the people that voted for this insane piece of state legislation and file for child support from them...and/or they should sue the state for support.

Make the individuals and state pay for the childs expenses and even college. Also they need to pay to keep the roof over their heads and medical expenses.

The state will soon see that it cannot survive fiscally.

Also, for other states that take in the victims that you mentioned they should bill S Dakota for any expense incurred to take care of victim and the child.

WE have to stop playing nice with these people...they started the fight let's take them on....

[BOSSHOG]

6. Does South Dakota have the death penalty?

[High Plains]

22. Yes, though I don't think we've gotten around to using it.

[mainer]

7. Like I was planning to visit South Dakota anyway. Not.

If we were boycotting them, I wonder if they'd even notice.

[Skarbrowe]

8. Set up an "underground railroad" to get women and children outta there.

Only half joking. Not a funny situation at all.

[LizW]

17. Yes, that's what it will come to.

When this insanity is upheld and goes national, we are going to have to set up secret networks to protect the reproductive health of women in these barbaric states. Either that or we'll be living the Handmaid's Tale.

[Tesha]

19. Margaret Atwood predicted this in "The Handmaid's Tale".

> Set up an "underground railroad" to get women and children outta there.

Margaret Atwood predicted this in "The Handmaid's Tale"; she
suggested that an "Underground Femaleroad" would smuggle women
out of the Republic of Gilead (the theocracy that was formed
from the shattered remnants of the former United States).

It may yet come to pass, and right soon!

Tesha

[coalition_unwilling]

26. Ding, ding, ding (to quote Randi Rhodes' special effects).

My wife and I are already making plans to organize covert women's health collectives. We have both decided that this is an issue worth going to jail over and are steeling ourselves for that eventuality also.

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. A huge chunk of SD is tribal territory, isn't it?

State laws don't apply to the Native American nations. They can still run their own clinics the way they like, can't they?

[IsItJustMe]

11. I believe your right. Just like the Casinos. Place clinics in Indian Co.

[MadMaddie]

13. That' s probably true....

but the * Administration is attacking Indians and their property as we speak. They are trying to change the laws and rules to benefit big corporations.....

[Jara sang]

16. Pine Ridge and several others.

All went blue in 2004.

[kineneb]

I am beginning to think

we ought to reach out to the Native communities. Since (on paper, at least) they are not part of the US, perhaps we can work out something. Passports, adopted citizenships...? Clinics on their lands would not be within state jusidictions...

[jackstraw45]

10. How much FEDERAL funding does SD get each year?

Anyone?

[Rose Siding]

30. In '03 they got about a buck and a half for every tax dollar

11th highest in the nation.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/347.html

[Radio_Guy]

15. Boycott?

Is anyone there now? What is their main source of income? When the bikers go to Sturgis, that doubles the state's population. What do they have besides farming and Sturgis? Not a flame, I just don't know. I don't have a thing labeled "made in South Dakota."

[High Plains]

24. Corn, wheat, pigs, cattle, credit card processing, tourism

Oh, and soybeans.

[Rose Siding]

27. Which companies? How can I find out?

[High Plains]

29. Sturgis boycott is the best idea I've heard

I am a South Dakotan (although I choose not to live there).

Sturgis is the major tourism event in the state. It gets huge local media coverage and has a huge impact on the state economy. A boycott around Sturgis will get lots of attention in the state. You'll find people starting to tell the fundamentalists to shove their morality up their ass if it begins to bite their wallets.

[Kansas Wyatt]

18. Organize and gather wire clothes hangers

Deliver them to the South Dakota Statehouse, and dump them in front of the legislators pushing this.

Dump the consequences of their actions, back into their laps.

[cascadiance]

20. Have bordering states charge a "toll" at the border on interstates...

Perhaps have new "toll" booths that tax people going in to South Dakota to discourage travel there from neighboring states. Of course the cost of building such booths, etc. might be too costly to be practical, but if there are already stations set up on some freeways there, perhaps we could add this "tax" going in.

This tax could easily be justified to help pay the neighboring states for them having to absorb the costs of the added abortions they will get coming in from other South Dakota. This would serve to discourage tourism going into South Dakota.

[Rose Siding]

21. Can't find much in the way of business. 3M just announced an expansion

but I don't know what products that would involve :shrug:

3M Announces Investment of $68 Million for Facility Expansion and Modernization in Aberdeen and Brookings

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 10, 2006
CONTACT: Mark Johnston at 605-773-3212

Pierre, SD – 3M Company, with locations in both Aberdeen and Brookings, has announced plans to invest $68 million in 2006 in their manufacturing facilities and equipment upgrades, according to Gov. Mike Rounds. From 2005 through 2006, 3M is expected to invest more than $100 million in the two locations

http://www.2010initiative.com/Press/06/021006.htm

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

25. Mt. Rushmore and the badlands can be boycotted as tourist destinations.

Love the biker boycott idea posted at the top of this thread...that's great!

[Jara sang]

28. stop eating GM corn. It's bad for you anyway.

[iamthebandfanman]

33. Contact the DINO woman Who VOTED FOR this

http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2005/mbrdt349.htm

PLEASE
go there and click on Contact Senator Bartling
and tell this DINO how you feel.

THIS must be STOPPED.

[mzmolly]

34. Excellent idea. Unfortunately we just visited last year.

:(

[KamaAina]

36. Gateway computers: no longer based there, but still a presence

http://www.gateway.com/about/news_info/locations.shtml

in North Sioux City, because SD had lower taxes than neighboring Sioux City, Iowa.

Good thing they at least moved corporate to Irvine, CA. I'd hate to think of the sickening crunch my less-than-year-old laptop would have made as it hit the pavement below my third-floor lanai... :argh: