{"id":1697,"date":"2006-03-15T11:21:51","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T18:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/in-south-dakota-at-least-the-pretense-is-finally-over\/"},"modified":"2006-03-16T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T16:22:00","slug":"in-south-dakota-at-least-the-pretense-is-finally-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/in-south-dakota-at-least-the-pretense-is-finally-over\/","title":{"rendered":"In South Dakota, at least the pretense is finally over"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keep in mind that after abortion is illegal, the next step is outlawing birth control. After that? Re-read The Handmaid’s Tale”<\/em> or take a good look at Sharia. mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In South Dakota, at least the pretense is finally over<\/a> By Ellen Goodman <\/p>\n

The ban passed with the clear, stated intention of overturning Roe in a changed Supreme Court. This is a ban so extreme<\/strong> that it outflanks the prolife president. It’s a confrontation so direct<\/strong> that even many in the antiabortion leadership are uneasy with the strategy and the timing. Though not, you will note, with the goal. …<\/p>\n

Even this week, with superb irony, Governor Rounds promised tender care for the women he would force to continue their pregnancies<\/strong>. Representative Hunt explained that women themselves would not be prosecuted under the law because any woman choosing abortion was ”not thinking clearly.”<\/strong> …<\/p>\n

This is what it looks like in front of the curtain. South Dakota’s law would make felons out of doctors who perform nearly any abortion. The government would replace women as moral decision-makers. And it would trump doctors as medical decision-makers. …<\/p>\n

The ban, slated to go into effect July 1, will be challenged in court and possibly by a statewide vote. But hopes of prolife purists are clearly pinned on the belief in a Supreme Court majority ready to reverse Roe. The hopes of the rest of us are pinned on seeing, really seeing, extremists in the spotlights.<\/strong><\/p>\n

”I think the South Dakota issue reflects the divisiveness that Americans are tired of,” says NARAL’s Keenan. Much political chatter this year has urged prochoice advocates and politicians to move to the right. How many more times are they required to recite the pledge — ”We want abortion to be safe, legal, and rare” — while prolife purists fight to make it unsafe and illegal?<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, NARAL Pro-Choice America launched a Prevention First Day of Action. The press release of the day read optimistically: ”Birth Control, Something We Can All Agree On.” But the subject of the day was the ban and the battle.<\/p>\n

Common ground, anyone? South Dakota just put another torch to it.<\/p>\n

Poll: U.S. inconsistent on abortion<\/a> – MSNBC.com<\/p>\n

\"APIn 2005, states enacted 52 measures to restrict access to abortion, according to the private Guttmacher Institute, and more are pending. …<\/p>\n

52 percent of those surveyed thought abortion should be legal in most or all cases; 43 percent said it should be illegal most or all of the time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The survey, taken Feb. 28-March 2, found that men\u2019s and women\u2019s views were similar, although men were a little more likely to be undecided.<\/p>\n

With slight shifts one way or another, this is about where Americans have been for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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