In just two weeks, pro-choice volunteers have already collected a third of the signatures they need to get the SD abortion ban on the November ballot. Nice!
The volunteers--mobilized by several organizations including NARAL Pro-Choice South Dakota--are saying that they are getting more support than they expected:
Spotting three teenagers with clipboards as he walked up to the Sturgis post office, Jack Hoel, 74, broke into a grin."I can't wait to sign," he said. "I was going to go out looking for this petition."
..."I have renewed faith in the people of South Dakota," said Serri Graslie, 18. "This is turning out much better than I thought."
A statewide poll commissioned by abortion rights activists last month found that 57% of voters want to overturn the ban.
I certainly hope so. To find out how you can help with the effort in South Dakota, click here.
Also check out the South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families.
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I hope S. Dakota succeeds
in battling this right wing attempt to control women's ability to choose what they must. I am from
Vermont and offer you my
best wishes. Not too crazy
about your "Barbie logo"
though.
Do you think many Americans will suffer depression when SD majority supports banning abortion just like American majority supported GW last election?
I was born in South Dakota seven decades ago. Until the recent state legislation attempting to control a medical decision that is none of their business, I was proud of my South Dakota roots. While I never needed to consider the need for an abortion; I do not believe that it is my business whether some other woman might want or need to consider an abortion. There are too many extenuating circumstances that cannot be considered in an inflexible piece of legislation. When the day arrives that men can become pregnant through rape, incest or through the failure of a birth control method, the uproar over abortion would end. Barefoot and pregnant needs to disappear from the mindset in this nation. A woman is not chattel and her biological ability to conceive children whether she wants to or not does not mean that she should have to risk arrest when she makes a medical decision about her own body.
I am from Missouri where the same situation exists. There are to many religious zealots holding positions in government and do not represent the wishes of there constituents. It seems their main goal is to harass the people they represent and maintain a government that invades our personal lives under the guise of protection of the embryo. Recently one of our elected officals brought a bill to the floor stating that christianity should be the state religion in MO
What a ruse it smacks of the Taliban and has no place in our government. Please check the backgrounds of all indivduals running for office make sure they haven't been infected with the crazy notion that their religious fervor should be forced on everyone else. The only way to get control of the situation is through the next two election cycles.
I pray God willing that God may inspire people to get out and vote in november in favor of the unborn child. I strongly support the South Dakota law banning abortion.
You would support a law that would force a woman (or young girl) to remain pregnant even if it would cause her death? Isn't that murder?