Think hard, Dennis.... Governor Dennis Daugaard says he's "inclined to sign" HB 1217, the abortion coercive-counseling and three-day-wait bill that cleared the South Dakota Senate yesterday: I think the merits of the bill are in their encouragement to women, especially…
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From my friends (and yours!) at the South Dakota ACLU, in the wake of the South Dakota Senate's appalling, misogynist approval of HB 1217: Unprecedented South Dakota Law Creates Major Obstacles For Women's Health State Legislature Approves Law That Creates…
Our legislators are receiving praise for passing HB 1216, the "Blender Pump Freedom Act." Thank goodness we've liberated blender pumps. Too bad women don't rate such respect from our legislators. HB 1217 passed Senate Health and Human Services Monday on…
Five Republicans in the South Dakota House recognize my wife and daughter aren't chattel: Rep. Jamie Boomgarden (R-17/Chancellor) Rep. Bob Deelstra (R-9/Hartford) Rep. Dan Dryden (R-34/Rapid City) Rep. Tad Perry (R-24/Fort Pierre) Rep. Fred Romkema (R-31/Spearfish) Thank you, gentlemen. Five…
In floor debate yesterday, Rep. Peggy Gibson (D-22/Huron) gave the most compelling argument against South Dakota's abortion-oppression bill, HB 1217. Rep. Gibson deserves a blog post of her own. I paraphrase extensively her courageous rebuttal to the woman-hating, big-government hogwash…
In the South Dakota State House yesterday, Representatives Patricia Stricherz, Kristin Conzet, Jenna Haggar, Lora Hubbel, Melissa Magstadt, Betty Olson, Tona Rozum, Jacqueline Sly, and Kim Vanneman silently voted themselves, and my wife, and my daughter (please do hear the…
Governor Dennis Daugaard has thus far kept a pretty tight focus on practical budget issues and stayed away from the culture war that some legislators insist on fighting. But Rep. Phil Jensen's hoghouse amendment of his own HB 1171 into…
Update: We still haven't passed a state budget. Mandy at DakotaWomen reports that our legislators are running scared from Rep. Phil Jensen's major screw-up of HB 1171, the now nationally known "shoot the doc" abortion bill. HB 1171 started as…