Because the state now lays claim to property rights in women’s uteruses. Better keep those legs crossed, women!
Setting up South Dakota to become the first state in 14 years to start a direct legal attack on Roe v. Wade, lawmakers voted on Wednesday to outlaw nearly all abortions.
Across the country, abortion rights advocates reacted with outrage and dismay. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which runs the sole abortion clinic in South Dakota, said it was bracing to fight the move in court immediately, if the governor signs it.
“This represents a monumental step backward for personal privacy for women,” Nancy Keenan, president of Naral Pro-Choice America, said.
Some opponents of abortion rights celebrated what they called a bold and brave move and lauded South Dakota for taking the lead in what they said they hoped would become a series of states to challenge Roe, the 1973 decision that made abortion legal.
The shifting makeup of the United States Supreme Court, the opponents said, offered a crucial opportunity, the first since at least 1992.
“It is a calculated risk, to be sure, but I believe it is a fight worth fighting,” State Senator Brock L. Greenfield, a Clark Republican who is also director of the South Dakota Right to Life, told his colleagues in a hushed, packed chamber here.
After more than an hour of fierce and emotional debate, the senators rejected pleas to add exceptions for incest or rape or for the health of the pregnant woman and instead voted, 23 to 12, to outlaw all abortions, except those to save the woman’s life.
They also rejected an effort to allow South Dakotans to decide the question in a referendum and an effort to prevent state tax dollars from financing what is certain to be a long and expensive court battle.
Emphasis added.
The women-as-chattel/anti-choice zealots sat on this little gambit until after scAlito was safely nominated. In case you didn’t think this was going to happen or you were one of the 20 chickenshit traitors who voted for cloture before a meaningless vote against scAlito on the senate floor (you cocksmoking fuckholes, you), well, here’s your proof. This is it. This was the reason to vote for Kerry. This was the reason to oppose Alito. This is the one trick the Wahabists have, the one thought they had in their tiny little minds. It’s not as if this should be a shock, except to the 20 traitorous fucktards who sold our civil liberties down the river because they’re too cowardly to actually act as an opposition party or too addicted to the cocktail shrimp circuit in DC. Sorry, tangent there.
This blatantly unconstitutional law is being pushed for the sole reason of hoping for a grant of cert by the Supreme Court, thereby leading to Roe v. Wade being overturned by the Scalia-Thomas-Roberts-scAlito axis of assholery.
That this law is upopular measure pushed by the increasingly anti-democratic American Taliban GOoPers is evidenced by the refusal to put it to a referendum. This, of course, is typical behavior for the “moral majority” minority. If you’re so strong in your convictions, bitches, why don’t you want the people to have their say? Why are you so afraid of opening up the principle to public debate?
The fight over abortion is not about the sanctity of life. It is not about “protecting the children,” or even protecting the zygote Americans (otherwise, where’s the anti-in-vitro fertilization law? Where’s the anti-normal uterine operation law?).
No, it is about controlling women and punishing them for having the audacity to have sex. Granted, with no carve-out for incest or rape, this heinous law is more correctly morally aligned with the “save the children” myth so as far as that goes, at least this law is more morally consistent and upfront about the motivations behind it than most (exceptions for rape or incest merely emphasize the punitive nature of the anti-choice zealots; they punish the “guilty” women for having sex while letting the “no-fault” women kill their zygote-Americans with impunity).
In addition to fundamentalist religious zealotry, much of this “debate” is pushed by scared, powerless men with tiny dicks. Like this guy who was a major force in getting this law passed:
This hung-like-a-peanut mama’s boy douchebag is going to make women pay for mocking his lack of externally visible genitalia. He’s going to make you all pay! (I’m also googlebombing douchebag to point to this douchebag. Feel free to do likewise)
I consider it a moral imperative not to support entities or activities which are repugnant to me. Thus, from this point forward, I will never vacation in South Dakota. I will never buy anything that I know comes from South Dakota. I will never support any public works in South Dakota. The only thing I will support is excising that welfare state from the Union.
I have a feeling my boycott list is going to be growing soon.
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