Important South Dakota Update.

[LiviaOlivia]

Thursday, May 18, 2006
Not Taking Any Chances
by digby
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_digbysblog_archive.html#114798522522562470

SIOUX FALLS, SD – Today’s Argus Leader newspaper revealed that Attorney General Larry Long has been asked to give his opinion on the timeframe for the circulation of petitions to refer the abortion ban passed by the legislature to the voters of South Dakota.

Central to the request of the Attorney General is a question being forwarded by two South Dakota legislators who are working on an expensive legal strategy to prevent the people of South Dakota a chance to vote to keep or repeal the near-total ban on abortions.

State Senator Lee Schoenbeck and State Representative Roger Hunt, the chief author of the abortion ban, are concocting a legal strategy to shut down the petition-signing process nearly three weeks before the deadline set under South Dakota law and confirmed by Secretary of State Chris Nelson. Nelson has consistently said the deadline for petitions is June 19, but Hunt and Schoenbeck believe it should be nearly three weeks earlier, shutting off opportunities for South Dakota voters to sign petitions.

You have to wonder why they would bother with this unless they have information that leads them to believe the referendum rejecting the draconian coat-hanger law might succeed. -digby.

[LiviaOlivia]

1. Please help if you can.

http://www.sdhealthyfamilies.org/

[Erika]

4. How very sad that SD would rule that a woman

must carry a child of her rapist, and even endangers her life. It will be a cold day in hell before we'd ever spend a cent there.

[niyad]

2. how soon can these bastards be voted out of office?

[AndyTiedye]

3. They Want it to Go to the USSC and Overturn Roe v Wade!

They certainly DON'T want a VOTE on the issue, which they would lose.

[Erika]

5. Women need to flex their muscle.

NO way will I pay taxes to a government who rules my body as state property and mandates whether I will give birth to a child.

[American Tragedy]

6. Agreed.

If it were to happen in my state, I would relocate to someplace where my rights were respected.

[emal2me]

7. Support Naral Pro-Choice

Naral Pro-Choice America has set up a special office in South Dakota. Check it out and give support. Thanks

http://www.prochoicesd.org/

[Quantess]

8. SD is reprehensible for anti-choice, but....

I don't know...did South Dakota have any abortion providers in state, before this total-ban (say total ban fast it sounds like taliban) on abortions?
My close associate is driving around S.D. for business. He said S.D. is a big vast empty state. Hard to find a motel sometimes, he said. Had to sleep in a haunted hotel one dreadful night, he said. Lots of vast prairie-middle-of-nowhere, with countless wild turkeys.

Could it be....South Dakota needs more people?

[tilsammans]

9. Please read this GOOD NEWS from SD now!

http://www.sdhealthyfamilies.org/


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