Battle lines drawn over S.D. abortion ban

[NVMojo]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Without breaking her stride, a woman glared at Justin Huck as he approached her outside the Minnehaha County Courthouse last week and asked her to sign a petition to let voters decide on South Dakota's new abortion ban.

Be ashamed, she told him.

For a moment, the 26-year-old collegian from Spearfish shelved his "we're all South Dakotans" smile and glared back.

"Are you afraid to put it to a vote?" he asked the woman. But she had disappeared into the courthouse, leaving Huck to retrieve his smile and approach another citizen: Nicole Jellema, 26, eight months pregnant, who smiled back. "I don't think the state should be able to do this," she said as she signed.

The battle is joined.

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[saigon68]

1. The Taliborn Again running Wild

[chaumont58]

6. To me, that is exactly the situation

Too much power for a church.

[Jade Fox]

2. Of course they're afraid to put it to a vote.....

Even in SD they are likely to lose if it's on the ballot.

[Maat]

3. Then that means that their representatives enacted it against their will.

Who elected these yahoos anyway?

I've lined up; I'm donating to Planned Parenthood!

[Jade Fox]

4. Ignoring what the electorate actually wants is epidemic...

in this country, unfortunately with the Democrats as well.

[bunkerbuster1]

5. Americans do NOT want to CRIMINALIZE abortion

when the debate is framed this way, we will win. We will win BIG.

The Goopers have overstepped big-time, here.

[xchrom]

7. it will be interesting to see how this develops.

especially if the lakota allow abortion to be performed on the res.

this is going to do funny, funny things to the citizens of the state of south dakota.

they politicians should have left well enough alone.

[DanCa]

8. We need to fight back against the religious right.

How do you beat a bully? You punch him hard in the nose once and he'll back down.

[Maat]

9. I agree with all of you.

And I particularly agree, DanCa, that it is very important that the citizens of South Dakota stand tall, and get this on the ballot. That would be standing up to the bully.