REPORT: The Five Ways That The GOP Is Trying To Eradicate A Woman’s Right To Choose

[Joanne98]

South Dakota is one of the most anti-abortion states in the country. In 1994, the state banned abortion providers inside its borders. “Planned Parenthood flies a doctor in from out-of-state once a week to see patients at a Sioux Falls clinic. Women from the more remote parts of the large, rural state drive up to six hours to reach this lone clinic” and must “receive counseling and wait 24 hours before undergoing the procedure.”

Now, it seems South Dakota is willing to legalize acts of terror in order to be the number one anti-abortion state in the U.S. The South Dakota House is taking up a bill to redefine “justifiable homicide” that may “make it legal to kill doctors who perform abortions,” Mother Jones reports. Passed out of committee on a 9-3 party line vote, the GOP-backed bill “could in theory allow a woman’s father, mother, son, daughter, or husband to kill anyone who tried to provide that woman an abortion — even if she wanted one.”

South Dakota’s House of Representatives is dominated by the GOP — a party that was swept into power by promising job creation, and is delivering the “most comprehensive and radical assault on women’s health in our lifetime.” The recent barrage of anti-reproductive rights bills betray “a broader national strategy” by pro-life advocates to manufacture callous, often perverse, obstacles to women’s reproductive rights. During the first months of their legislative sessions, GOP lawmakers at the state and federal level have come up with four other radical abortion restrictions to marginalize women’s rights and eradicate choice

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/15/five-ways-eradicate-choice/

[davidpdx]

1. I saw the article just a few minutes ago

These people make me sick. I hope it doesn't pass and if it does, I hope someone finds a way to challenge it.