I thought Senate Health and Human Services' deadlock on House Bill 1162, the sex-selective-abortion ban, offered us some hope for rational restraint on anti-abortion laws in the South Dakota Legislature. I should have known better than to get optimistic. Concerns…
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South Dakota's anti-abortion legislation is bad enough. When it takes a racist turn, it's worse. House Bill 1162 seeks to make it illegal to abort a fetus because of the fetus's sex. Like other abortion laws on South Dakota's books,…
House Bill 1180 is an anti-child, anti-woman, anti-knowledge bill masquerading under the guise of fairness. This bill, now just one vote away from heading to Governor Dennis Daugaard's desk, makes South Dakota's bad abortion restrictions even worse by prohibiting organizations…
...and has to help kill an abortion ban. Rep. Rev. Steve Hickey is having a tough week. He saw two measures he sponsored defeated in committee, and he had to help kill a third that he decided was too risky…
New Jersey lawyer Harold Cassidy has made a career of meddling in state legislatures, including South Dakota's, promoting restrictions on abortion that deny women their rights to privacy and bodily autonomy. But he evidently hasn't made a good living at…
Mr. Ehrisman notes that Sanford Health is helping South Dakota women maintain access to safe, legal abortions... in North Dakota: A Dakotas-based health care system has granted hospital-admitting privileges to doctors at North Dakota's sole abortion provider, which would bring…
The new Legislative Incarceration Fiscal Impact Statements offer some instructive commentary on this year's tedious anti-abortion grandstanding from our state legislators. House Bill 1162 bans sex-selective abortions. HB 1240 bans abortion due to Down Syndrome. HB 1241 bans abortions that…
Abortion makes its first appearance in the Legislative hopper as Rep. Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton) files House Concurrent Resolution 1005, which exhorts Congress and the President to bestow Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to fetuses: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION, Urging Congress and…