South Dakota columnist rips into Governor - abortion bill

[kevinbgoode]

A columnist for the Rapid City Journal tore into the "religious" crusade rampant among the stealth legislators who passed the abortion law in South Dakota last week:

Sam Hurst, 3-12: Between health and life
By Sam Hurst, Journal columnist
For the second time in as many years, Mike Rounds has proven himself to be a good Catholic and a bad governor. It's a shame. On a variety of issues regarding education and economic development the governor has shown himself to be quite creative and forward thinking. But when it comes to a good old-fashioned religious crusade, he has a whopping big blind spot.

Last year Gov. Rounds received a letter from the Catholic bishop of Sioux Falls demanding that the State Library Web site remove a link to Planned Parenthood. Keep the link to a Catholic Web site, but dump Planned Parenthood.

The governor did his duty to the bishop, with no apparent pause to consider obscure little problems like, say, the Constitution. To their credit, the State Library Board voted twice to affirm the link to Planned Parenthood. His response was to shut down the entire Web site.

Now the governor has signed the most vicious anti-women's health legislation in the nation. As a general rule, I am opposed to the use of the veto by governors who simply disagree with the intent of duly elected legislators. But events of the last week have led me to wonder if Gov. Rounds, once again, has gotten wrapped up in the hysteria of a religious crusade, while neglecting to ask simple questions about just how the law will work. After all, when the chorus of righteous prayer has fallen to a whisper, the women and men, parents and priests, physicians and insurance companies of South Dakota will have to figure out how to live with the new law.

The governor's lack of curiosity about the mechanics of the law is a failure of leadership, and a reflection of his blind spot for religious and medical values that differ from his own.

http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2006/03/12/news/opinion/opin02.txt

[opihimoimoi]

1. Who will pay for the real cost? Children out of wedlock? The challenged

ones...as in Downs Syndrome? The increased population?

What He has done, along with the proponents, is to awaken the the Pro Choice crowd..the backlash thingy...

[katmondoo]

3. I am waiting to see a BLACKLASH

Where is it?

[opihimoimoi]

4. Much protests are springing up across the Nation...watch for it

It is coming in ways the Pubs gonna regret starting this shit in the first place...

[MissMarple]

2. What happened to the sane Catholics?

I know there used to be some. Perhaps they have been blindsided by the national stealth campaign driven by the religiously insane totalitarians. I think people forget that one of the biggest enemies of democracy is totalitarianism, especially ideological totalitarianism.