Ok, what is UP with South Dakota?

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Anybody know? I'm ashamed to say that while I know about the horrid forced birth measures being brought forward, I don't know who in the fuck is behind this disgusting disregard for life and human rights.


Washington Post Examines South Dakota Abortion Ban Ballot Initiative

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"Slevin, Washington Post, 9/21). The proposal, which will be on the state's ballot in November, would ban abortions except in cases of rape or incest, to save a woman's life or to avert a "substantial and irreversible" maternal health risk of impairment to "a major bodily organ or system" (Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 9/12).

Marvin Buehner, a physician specializing in high-risk pregnancies who supports abortion rights, said that the initiative "would amount to a total ban," adding that the risk of a Class 4 felony charge if he fails to meet the "ambiguous standard of 'serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily organ or system'" would prevent him from performing the procedure to protect the health of pregnant women. Buehner said the initiative "represents incredible government interference in the practice of medicine." Leslee Unruh -- leader of the VoteYesforLife.com campaign, which is promoting the initiative -- said the measure is "more moderate, more reasonable, more of a middle ground" than a 2006 ban that was rejected by South Dakota voters.

According to the Post, abortion access in South Dakota already is more difficult than in other states. There is only one clinic that provides the procedure in the state, and state law requires a 24-hour waiting period to receive an abortion. South Dakota law also requires physicians to inform women that the procedure would "terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique living human being." The law also requires physicians to state that abortion increases the risk of "suicide ideation and suicide," even though the statement is medically disputed, the Post reports. Some South Dakota doctors are hesitant to perform abortions and physicians from Minneapolis are flown into the state once a week by Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota."

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/122680.php



Oh, by the way, read the measure if you have time. It's embedded in the article. Full of disgusting double speak like this, as well as other horrors;
Section 1

(3)That submitting to an abortion subjects the pregnant woman to significant psychological and physical health risks, and that in the majority of cases there is neither the typical physician -patient relationship nor sufficient counseling between a pregnant woman contemplating submitting (gotta love the word "submit"-- assholes)to an abortion and the physician who performs the abortion

(4) That a pregnant woman possesses certain intrinsic rights which enjoy affirmative protection under the Constitution of the United States of America and under the constitution and laws of th eState of South Dakota and that among these are the fundamental right of the pregnant woman to her relationship with her child, and her fundamental right to make decisions that advance the well-being and welfare of her child;"

And so forth. Doesn't sound constititional as all, it's written like crap, to my admittedly unprofessional eye.
And people actually vote for this shit.

[fizzgig]

1. i am appalled that people vote for this crap

and the people who do are often the same ones who bitch about big government.

here in colorado we've got a proposed amendment to our CONSTITUTION that would define life as beginning at conception and give a fertilized egg all the same constitutional and legal rights and protections as you or i.

this is not something that belongs in our constitution (our state constitution is far, far to easy to amend) and i am frightened by the implications of the passage of this amendment.

i don't get it how people 1) bitch about big government but then want them to go rooting around in my uterus and 2) think that decreasing birth control options is a good way to reduce abortions