The Rapid City Journal today has an article stating that based on a survey, more South Dakota legislators support putting a new abortion ban law on the ballot in November than oppose it:
One hundred of the 105 members of the South Dakota Legislature responded to the AP mail survey. Fifty-one said they believe an abortion ban with exceptions for rape, incest or the life or health of a woman should be put on the November ballot. Another 29 said they oppose the public vote, and 18 were undecided.
While nearly two-thirds of the Republican lawmakers supported a public vote on abortion, only about one-third of the Democrats supported the idea.
According to the latest statistics on abortion from the South Dakota Department of Health, 84.6% of abortions done in South Dakota are simply because "The mother did not desire to have the child." The reasons many gave for rejecting the 2006 abortion ban, the lack of rape/incest/health exceptions, accounted for a combined total of only 1.9% of all abortions.
Polls in 2006 indicated a vast majority (somewhere around 70% if I remember correctly) said they'd support an abortion ban that had these exceptions.
2008 is time to put their money where their mouth is. We'll see if they really mean it...or if it was simply another lie to keep abortion on demand available.
2 comments:
The legislators ignored the will of the people last time.
Guess they just can't accept 'no means no' and will once again attempt to rape the rights of women and violate their bodies a second time.
The legislators didn't "ignore the will of the people" last time. They voted as their consciences direct, as they are supposed to in our representative democracy.
Hopefully they won't accept "no means no," just like the abolitionists in England and the United States didn't accept "no" when it came to abolishing slavery, or guaranteeing full civil rights for black people, or anything else you'd care to name.
A woman's rights end where another person's body begins. Since science tells us that human beings have unique human DNA from the moment of conception, that makes them a separate and distinct human being. The woman has no rights to terminate that life because it is not a part of her body--it is another person.
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