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South Dakota banned abortion today

Posted by Laura Barcella at 3:29 PM on February 22, 2006.


and Planned Parenthood vows to fight it.
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Today, in what NARAL calls a "monumental setback for women," the South Dakota Senate voted to ban abortion in that state.

It's the broadest abortion measure passed by any state in more than 10 years, and a scary harbinger of what might lie ahead in the fight to preserve choice.

From Planned Parenthood:

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and Planned Parenthood Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota (PPMNS) denounced the South Dakota Senate's vote to ban abortion today. PPFA and PPMNS announced they will fight the ban in court to protect Planned Parenthood patients.
PPFA Senior Staff Attorney Eve Gartner issued the following statement on the ban:
"This ban is an attack on women's fundamental right of privacy and their ability to make the most intimate and personal choice about when and whether to have a child. The U.S. Supreme Court has reaffirmed time and again the constitutional right to make the private choice to have an abortion. South Dakota is entering dangerous territory with this ban.
"Across the country, state politicians are creating a gauntlet of anti-choice laws and regulations to make it more difficult for women to get the best and safest reproductive health care services. South Dakota's ban is the most sweeping abortion ban passed by any state in more than a decade. Planned Parenthood will go to court to ensure women, with their doctors and families, continue to be able to make personal health care decisions -- not politicians."
Stay tuned; AlterNet will have more to come on the South Dakota abortion ban and how you can fight it.

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Laura Barcella is AlterNet's front page editor.


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Gross.
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Posted by: kablooie on Feb 22, 2006 4:13 PM   
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South Dakota amazes me -- I thought that the first ban on women's reproductive rights would come from my home state of Arkansas. There are so many crooked, perverted, righteously indignant hillbilly rednecks running things down there that it just seemed probable.

South Dakota: Even worse than Arkansas. Who knew?

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» RE: Gross It IS appalling Posted by: saywhat?
Another GOP Con-Job
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Posted by: CatDad on Feb 22, 2006 10:36 PM   
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When times get tough and it's not possible to play the terrorism card, then it's time to go back to the old standby's: abortion and homosexuals.

They passed this law knowing full well that it will be struck down. It's a way to appear to be limiting abortion without acutally doing anything...plays very well in the sticks and it easily distracts folks in such places from the real plutocratic/corporate agenda...an agenda which ultimately forces people into dire economic straights...thereby feeding the abortion machine.....this irony is sadly lost

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» They? Posted by: pball
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wtf?
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Posted by: philame on Feb 22, 2006 10:37 PM   
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Can't wait to hear what we can do to support NARAL.

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» RE: wtf? Posted by: okcamp
It gets worse - FROM WITHIN!!
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Posted by: Suburban Dad on Feb 23, 2006 4:10 AM   
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This on CNN: "It is the time for the South Dakota Legislature to deal with this issue and protect the lives and rights of unborn children," said Democratic Sen. Julie Bartling, the bill's main sponsor.

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» RE: It gets worse - FROM WITHIN!! Posted by: monkeybrig
You got to understand why this pathetic backlash never dies out here in the Great Plains
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Posted by: SDres11 on Feb 23, 2006 6:25 AM   
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Myself a South Dakota native, this was already in the coming. Even before this ban, there were far more restrictions and barriers put up to the point that abortion was outlawed anyway.

And don't expect the Democrats to do anything about it either. If they really cared to learn, they'd take serious lessons from the Democrats in Montana and balance all this out fair and square.

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Abortion Ban
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Posted by: larraine on Feb 23, 2006 7:52 AM   
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Unfortunately it's going to take the deaths of women to wake up some of the anti-abortion foes in this country. When people are polled about abortion, they will often say they wouldn't have one themselves. Years ago I had a discussion with my Irish-Catholic mother-in-law. I had one child and was contemplating having another. However I was in my mid 30's and said I would have testing for Downs Syndrome. She was horrified at the thought and said that whatever happened I would love a child with Downs and of course she was right. However I knew that I wasn't the kind of person who could handle it plus I didn't want my son burdened. A few years later, one of her nieces, a child born with fetal alcohol syndrome, was raped. Suddenly my mother-in-law and her siblings were convinced that she should have an abortion since at the time she was 14 or 15 with the intellectual capacity of a five year old. The point is that when confronted with a pregnancy of a young girl, in particular, people suddenly see things in a different light - even staunch anti-abortion Catholics!

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"rights of unborn children"
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Posted by: nise52 on Feb 23, 2006 7:55 AM   
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If unborn children have rights and are to be treated as full citizens then why aren't they included in the census?
Taken as a tax-deduction BEFORE as well as AFTER birth?
Allowed to vote?
Allowed to run for office?
Required to get a Soc Sec card BEFORE birth?

Pity the doctor who has to tell a woman she's going to die because the STATE owns her body and deems her INELIGIBLE to demand medical attention even though going thru labor (in her particular medical condition...bad heart, hemophiliac, etc) will kill her.

It will happen. Women will start dying again.

Abortion should be SAFE, LEGAL and RARE! Promote birth control and abortions slow to a trickle (the rate of abortions have been decreasing for years anyway).

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Iranian Paradigm
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Posted by: Deep on Feb 23, 2006 8:09 AM   
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if south dakota outlaws abortion, it'll only be a matter of time before it is reinstated, if iran offers any hope. iran, the middle eastern version of south dakota-but with better rugs-outlawed abortion right after the 1979 revolution. all forms of abortion, even those that are meant to save the life of a woman, as well as rape and incest are outlawed. as a result, thousands and thousands of iranian women began going to back allies and wire hangers for illegal and unsafe abortions. causing thousands of women to die as a result. now, the iranian parliament and the guardian council are reconsidering this law, to make reforms. maybe even decriminalizing it, allowing women to go to safe clinics, where their lives won't be at risk. who would've thought that a country that chops the limbs off accused thieves would be more progressive then one of our states?

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» RE: Iranian Paradigm Posted by: drone
And one more thing, the abortion ban only passed after
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Posted by: SDres11 on Feb 23, 2006 9:30 AM   
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so much fact fudging

South Dakota Task Force On Abortion's Final Report Altered, Planned Parenthood Official Says

Don't be surprised to find rightwingers use these same tricks in other states !

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Dark Days
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Posted by: Old Hippie on Feb 23, 2006 10:02 PM   
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Where is the outrage? Where is the mass condemnation? Nowhere. We have lost our rights, slowly but surely, under this administration, and now the women of South Dakota are facing forced childbirth. The additional shame of failing to pass an ammendment to allow for abortion for cases of rape and incest are mind-boggling. Welcome to a 1984 nightmare.

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