232,545 people are deciding the fate of women's rights in this country.

[Jara sang]

232,545... That is how many people voted for Bush in South Dakota. It's safe to assume that those are the anti-choice voters in South Dakota as well, though I'm sure there a few Democrats that are anti-choice in S.D. 232,545 out of a state with a population of 754,844. So we've aloud these hayseeds a seat at the big table, they have voiced their opinions and now it is time that we shut them out and return them to the rickety card table reserved for the children.

[GrumpyGreg]

1. Hayseeds? A little elitist aren't you?

[physioex]

2. Hmmmm......

Who is pushing whose values on whom now?

[Jara sang]

3. Oh yeah, I forgot, Rapid City is a wellspring of sophistication.

Beg my pardon.

[Texacrat]

9. No, he isn't

Though SD's law will be stricken down immediately.

[GoneOffShore]

4. Jara, thanks for putting this in perspective

And no, you're not being elitist here.

The voters of SD who put * in office have much to atone for. They bought into a false value system and now the rest of us are paying for it.

I can no longer continue to romantically ascribe virtue to rural values. The Jeffersonian ideal of an informed agrarian society has been undermined and destroyed by corrupt corporatists. People who live on the land are now no more virtuous than those who live in the cities.

[Jara sang]

5. If you are from SD, didn't vote for Bush and are pro-choice.

I got no problem with you.

[GoneOffShore]

6. Hey, I'm in Philadelphia

I voted for Kerry, am pro choice, and if I could have voted in SD, I would have. But I have no dead relatives there so wasn't able to. I had to vote here.

You're perspective is on the money. Time to lessen the power of those places with fewer people and a bigger percentage of Christofascists.

[GrumpyGreg]

7. They already have less power===less electoral votes and less members

of the House.

[NJCher]

8. but they still have two senators

Cher

[Stephanie]

12. you can't do that

Those places are the heart of America and they have to be brought along into the 21st century. They need to be hastened along into enlightenment.

[mondo joe]

10. And this is different than any other case in what way?

Isn't this the system we've had in place for a couple hundred years?

The decision isn't in their hands - it's in the hands of the people who voted for Reagan Bush 1, Bush 2 not to mention the legislature.

[Erika]

11. But it's fun to send them coat hangers

They are trying to send women back to the 14th century just like their Taliban counterparts. A little strange twist this country has is that females who join in belittling their own sex gets perks. Such as in South Dakota.