Aborti0WNED

Since nobody else has pointed this out. All four abortion laws proposed in the legislature have died.

What was that they said last year? If last years ban failed it would set back the anti-abortion groups by about twenty years.

Maybe next year our legislature could work on some better ways to reduce abortion, like a comprehensive prevention bill.

New Abortion Ban Dies in Senate Committee

The Senate State Affairs Committee voted down the only abortion ban left in this years legislature on an 8 to 1 vote today. The only person voting for it was Gene Abdallah.

Attorney General Larry Long also made a comment to the Argus today "“We were unable to find solutions we were happy with . . . I’m not happy with the solutions in the current bill.’’

So the AG does not like the ban, the South Dakota Right to Life group is against this ban and the Senate shot it down with all but one vote.

But now the morality police in the legislature are going to try to force this to a vote in the Senate, they think they have enough votes to force the issue. Time to write your Senators and tell them enough is enough, get back to business.

They may very well have the 12 they need to force this to a vote depending on how some of the Senators feel about beating the voters over the head with an unpopular issue. If they could muster the 18 to pass it is another issue with a big maybe hanging over it.

Does anyone really want to go through two years of the angry and ugly cloud that hung over everything during the last public vote?

Abortion Ban Passes House

HB 1293 passed the house 45 to 25.
Now what the Senate committee will do with it is next.

Gordon Howie - Knows What You Want Better Than You

Gordon "women are like cattle" Howie has offically lost it, that is if he ever had it to begin with.

At a legislative crackerbarrel this weekend Gordie again proved that he is completely out of touch with not only voters but reality. He claimed that the people who voted down last years abortion bans didn't really want to vote down the ban but really wanted to instead vote for his ban this year. He went on again to recite that he would deny any woman an abortion for any reason unless death was the result. But Howie being the generous guy that he is will give those undeserving wimmins of South Dakota some useless exceptions because according to him that is what people voting against the ban really wanted, they just needed him to tell them so.

Howie goes on to claim that the concept that people are tired of this issue was solely a made up tactic by Planned Parenthood and that nobody else had mentioned "abortion fatigue". It appear then that Bill Napoli, Brock Greenfield, Julie Bartling, Jean Hunhoff, Charlotte Gilson and Ben Nusselhoff, all work for Planned Parenthood according to Gordie.

Video of Gordie's lunacy (opens in new window)

We would provide you with Gordon "women are like cattle" Howie's email address but he does not have one. It appears that email is beyond this lawmakers capabilities. Should we really have someone so inept they can't operate an email account making decisions about womens lives?

News tip and video courtesty of Robbinsdale Radical!