Wayne Besen - Author, Activist, Columnist, Public Speaker

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Gov. Mike Rounds (R) signed legislation Monday banning nearly all abortions in South Dakota, setting up a court fight aimed at challenging the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. The bill would make it a crime for doctors to perform an abortion unless the procedure was necessary to save the woman's life. It would make no exception for cases of rape or incest.

Will America's silent majority finally wake up and realize that it is not okay to vote Republican? Doing so has real life consequences that hurt real women. The Republicans were not joking when they said they would outlaw abortion. They see their opportunity and they are seizing it. I think this will work against the GOP in the midterm elections, as they are overplaying their hand and spooking mainstream Americans.

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Wayne,

Why are so many in the community in favor of abortion? This law still makes a provision for women to obtain an abortion if it's going to save their life.

I've never understood this...particularly if you're right that there's a genetic component to gayness. (Again, that's also why I take solace in that I don't believe there is, but that's for a different thread.)

If fundamentalists are as crooked and evil as some of you think, if testing for a genetic/inborn structure for same-gender existed in a fetus, by your logic wouldn't many funda-gelical women start HAVING abortions?

Or is it more important to "stick it to the man" (no pun intended), the "man" being the evangelical fundamentalist conservative republican structure, when you make abortion legal? (And if you're worried about back alley abortions and coat hangers, is there indeed research in South Dakota or elsewhere which says that's what these women are going to turn to, rather than giving a child up for adoption, raising it, etc.?)

I know there is a segment of the gay population who are indeed anti-abortion. Yet, seriously, if this all fell into place, what would be the reaction of the GLBT community if people started aborting genetically-tested "gay" fetuses en masse?

I look forward to your helping me understand this perplexing point of view.
posted by Kurt W, at 3/07/2006 9:58 AM

The number of abortions during the Clinton era were LESS than they are now under bush. One reason, I'm sure, is the gutting of planned parenthood and other family planning programs by the right wingnuts. These same extremists are also against birth control, although they play that one close to their chests; it's all about controlling women. Abortions should be safe legal and RARE!
Roe v Wade is also about other privacy issues, not just abortions. If it is overturned, things like Living Wills could also be challenged and considering the fascist interference in the teri schivo case, i have no doubt that that is next on their nefarious control-freak agenda.
Gary (NJ)
posted by Anonymous, at 3/07/2006 12:24 PM

Kurt - it has been my experience that a woman hell-bent on terminating her pregnancy, for whatever reason, will have one by any means necessary, even if that includes putting her own life at risk.

This takes me to another point - it is the Radical Right in this country that forces women into these predicaments by calling them names and forcing them into unwanted marriages simply so their children will not be labelled as "bastards." So much for being pro-family.

And while we are on the subject, you guys from the Right are the ones who talk about government making too many decisions for people, government being involved in personal lives, yet whenever it satisfies your crooked agenda, you have no problem forsaking those principles of limited government to put your theocratic views on the rest of us.

If you are so concerned with human life and the dignity being shown towards it, then I guess I will run into you at the next anti-death penalty march.

I also find it hypocritical how the Governor of South Dakota said something along the lines of the true measure of a civlization is how they treat the most vulnerable. He would probably send two men caught kissing to the gallows if he had his choice. Another hypocrite. Those seem to run rampant in the Republican Party.

Rights do not begin at conception and end at birth, as the conservatives seem to be saying.
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