south dakota, at it again

it can't happen here? well, yes it can. it's OUR job to NOT LET IT.

NO MORE COAT HANGERS - EVER

Abortion ban returns to ballot in South Dakota

By CARSON WALKER
Associated Press Writer

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Two years after South Dakotans rejected a nearly total ban on abortion, voters on Nov. 4 will decide another sweeping but less restrictive ballot measure that would probably send a legal challenge of Roe v. Wade to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The initiative would outlaw abortions but includes exceptions for rape, incest and pregnancies that threaten the life or health of the woman. Some voters said they wanted those exceptions when they rejected the tougher 2006 measure 56 percent to 44 percent.

Opponents say the new measure would jeopardize the patient-doctor relationship because physicians could be criminally charged for exceeding its bounds. They also argue that its exceptions are too narrowly defined and that it would force some women to carry an unhealthy fetus.

Leslee Unruh, the executive director of VoteYesForLife.com and the measure's main proponent, said it's legally sound.

Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, said the initiative could threaten legalized abortion in every state, especially if it goes before a 2011 or 2012 Supreme Court that would probably tilt to the right if Sen. John McCain becomes president.......

south dakota has ONE

abortion clinic. granted it's NOT a very populous state, but it is a BIG state

now this ridiculousness?
and if we'd concentrate on teaching a well rounded COMPREHENSIVE sex ed class in school (instead of the fantasy of abstinance), we'd have FAR LESS ABORTIONS TO BEGIN WITH

Ruling Gives South Dakota Doctors a Script to Read

Women Seeking Abortion Must Be Told About 'Unique Living Human Being'

By Peter Slevin

Washington Post Staff Writer

CHICAGO -- In a victory for antiabortion forces, doctors in South Dakota are now required to tell a woman seeking an abortion that the procedure "will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique living human being."

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit last week lifted a preliminary injunction that prevented the language from taking effect. A spokesman for Planned Parenthood, which runs the state's only abortion clinic, said doctors will begin reciting the script to patients as early as this week.

On another front, South Dakota voters will be asked in a Nov. 4 referendum to consider broad limits on abortion for the second time since 2006. The ballot measure includes exceptions for rape, incest and the woman's health that were not part of the 2006 wording rejected by voters.......

at first, i thought this headline

from boing boing was a joke.

IT'S NOT
GOP Senate hopeful got rich diverting corpsemeat from burn victims to enlarge penises

impeach

The South Dakota Dept. of Motor Vehicles have decided to rescind Heather Morijah's personalized license plates "MPEACHW" because of one reported complaint. The Rapid City residentis the conservation organizer for the West River Office of the Sierra Club. (Photo by Steve McEnroe, Journal photographer)