South Dakota legislature to reintroduce a bill banning abortion only a few short months after voters in a state-wide referendum rejected the previous ban:
PIERRE — Lawmakers confirmed Friday that a bill banning most abortions in South Dakota will be introduced again in the Legislature, and it will contain exceptions for rape, incest and the health of women. […]
A measure that would have banned all abortions except those necessary to save women’s lives was passed last year, but it was referred to the ballot and voters ultimately rejected it.
The head of Planned Parenthood in Sioux Falls said she is disappointed that the South Dakota Legislature will once again consider a bill to ban most abortions in the state.
Kate Looby said Friday it’s apparent lawmakers didn’t get the message in the last election when voters rejected an abortion ban by a margin of 56 percent to 44 percent.
“The voters just spoke on this issue in November, and the message they were sending was, ‘We don’t want the government involved in this very personal, private family issue,’ and apparently some of the legislators just can’t seem to stay out of private issues that families are facing and deal with,” Looby said.
Who cares what 56% of the state’s citizens want? Obviously, not these hard-line obsessed Republican politicans. These radical right wing Republicans won’t ever stop in their drive to control every aspect of women’s reporductive systems. Not that they are alone in hoping the Supreme Court will reverse Roe v. Wade if one of these totla abortion ban laws is passed. Here are examples of similar legislation being proposed in Texas and in Virginia by Republicans, naturally. In upholdong their version of Judeo-Christian values, they can’t wait until the day comes they can sentence abortion providers and the women who have abortions to death for their “crimes.”
That’s the culture of life for you. It means they control your life, not you.
