South Dakota Voters to Decide Abortion Law

South Dakota voters are preparing, for the first time since Roe v. Wade, to vote on whether abortion should be legal — more specifically, whether the total abortion ban enacted by the state’s male-dominated legislature should be scrapped, or remain in effect.

Here two women — one pro-life, one pro-choice — speak out. Interestingly, they both expect voters to strike down the abortion ban, and make abortion legal again — without the intervention of “activist judges.”

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25 Responses to South Dakota Voters to Decide Abortion Law

  1. Iraqveterankill4real says:

    You know I dont …
    You know I dont care anymore do what you want

  2. FREEAMERICANOW69 says:

    didn’t like what? …
    didn’t like what? you just proved yourself to be another pro-lifer that doesn’t think how his opinions come into reality or law

    i didn’t refute anything, I’m talking about legality of men’s rights and when i asked you how and you didn’t give me any answer but get back in the kitchen.

    sorry, but in reality, biology doesn’t mean anything unless the child is born, so unless you share the equal burden and have legal rights to a woman’s body…then you have no legal rights to embryo, ask a lawyer!

  3. Iraqveterankill4real says:

    See you didnt like …
    See you didnt like it when I insulted your rights thats a taste of your own medicine.Futhermore I am saying it takes a mans sperm and a womans uterus/eggs to make a baby or do you refute modern biology.Thus the father and mother both have rights to the child just because a woman carries the child doesnt mean she should be able to exstinguish the fathers half of the child unless both agree on it and if the fathe wants the child and the mother doesnt then the father should have legal rights to it.

  4. FREEAMERICANOW69 says:

    wow, it doesn’t …
    wow, it doesn’t need to happen because it’s against a woman’s civil and legal rights to her own body to give it to some man, who doesn’t have the burden of pregnancy and childbirth, dumbass.

    but,” it takes two” and your point is?
    one is doing all the work and have her own life for better or worse and one can leave and still have no burden.

    I’m talking about the legality of men’s rights with reality and just you sat nothing because deep down inside you…you know it can’t legally work, bitch!

  5. Iraqveterankill4real says:

    Thats what we need …
    Thats what we need to find out isnt it? And it takes two to make a baby you are a femminist and you place is in my kitchen get to work bitch!!!

  6. FREEAMERICANOW69 says:

    how is giving men a …
    how is giving men a choice is pro-choice? when it’s actually gives power over someone else who actually has the embryo inside them and will go through the pain of 9 months of pregnancy and the pain of 10-20 hours of labors…men don’t share equal burden of pregnancy and labor, so that’s why men don’t have any rights.

    and what if the man wanted abortion and the woman didn’t? and how would they split the rights up?

  7. FREEAMERICANOW69 says:

    no, men have no …
    no, men have no legal rights to the embryo because they have no legal rights to a woman’s body. also, men don’t share equal burden of carrying the embryo inside their bodies.

    you helped put it there but you’re not carrying it= no rights to embryo…ask a lawyer!

  8. Fallhearst says:

    This woman says …
    This woman says that people cannot prevent her from “doing what she wants with her body”. Which apparently means completely destroying another body.

  9. Iraqveterankill4real says:

    I get what your …
    I get what your saying I do agree with that statement but I dont agree with it when the parents had a fling and a mircale happened but doesnt want the responsability of raising a baby to become an adult.The problem with that is people will not be responsable for there actions like a drunk drive blames vechiluar manslaughter on the alcohol but he was still driving the car and still killed someone.maybe they where pregnant with a fetus but they are still charged with the manslaughter correct.

  10. Iraqveterankill4real says:

    Fetus is a latin …
    Fetus is a latin word meaning baby do some studying every now and then.. Its like the word shellshock was used and it has been de-humized by the term post traumatic stress disorder.The same apllies here do you think the fetus(baby) wants to die?I wouldnt think so I think abortion should be legal because some pregnancies go wrong and some women are raped thats wrong.What else is wrong is that a father doesnt get a say to be truly pro-choice he has to have a choice too.Except for a rape case.

  11. Iraqveterankill4real says:

    Ther are exceptions …
    Ther are exceptions and thats what they should be exceptions.People make choices and thats there right I agree I am going with pro-choice on abortion .I hope people will come to agree on something here.All I have a problem with is why the father doesnt get a say in it its his child too to truly be pro-choice the father has to have rights because he needs to choose as well I happen to have impregnated a woman and she let me choose I chose life and I have a beautifull baby son!!thats priceless!!

  12. Shawtyyxo001 says:

    actually by law, …
    actually by law, men do have a say.
    a woman cant get pregnant with out sperm. who has sperm? MEN. The main event of conception is the uniting of the mother and father’s chromosomes to form a new, unique human being. so a baby has an equal amount of chromosomes from the mom and dad. just b/c its in ur uterus doesnt mean its more of ur kid and not so much the fathers.
    if u think men shouldnt have a say then u shouldnt be allowed to abort MALE fetuses. simple.

  13. christinepeace says:

    Who made you the …
    Who made you the decider over my uterus? Men don’t have a say becuase they don’t have a uterus, simple!

  14. Sennot1 says:

    Murder whether …
    Murder whether intended or not is murder. The burden of proof is on the side trying to prove that a baby is not entitled to its rights. Those are clear straight fwd and unavoidable conclusions of the bill of rights. Any contrary view is intellectually and morally bankrupt. Its also why you never hear a pro abortionist mention the rights of the child. The minute they do the arguments are self condemning.
    So in truth abortion is a SELFISH act. I can sympathize with the scared girl.

  15. Shawtyyxo001 says:

    woopsie! i gave you …
    woopsie! i gave you a thumbs down but i meant the opposite. you have a good point! i am adopted too, and pro life.

  16. Shawtyyxo001 says:

    that is so unjust, …
    that is so unjust, men should totally have their say and opinion on abortion.
    1. men are hurt by abortion too
    2. a woman can’t get preggo w/o a MANS sperm
    3. men got here the same way women did, and their mothers didnt abort them
    4. whether the father is a rapist or your husband, it is the blood related father, just as equally as you are the blood related mother, he has a say

  17. HowardSternn says:

    Hey Pro-Lifers …
    Hey Pro-Lifers Don’t forget DRUGS&PROSTITUTION are illegal. Nobody does DRUGS because there illegal i’m assuming lol. Good luck with you’re pro-life agenda. One thing i’ve always found out is that there are less abortions in countries where it’s legal like France than in countries where it’s illegal like Argentina,Chile,Mexico etc. The same with DRUGS there is less crime in countries where drugs are legal than in countries where it’s illegal. Good luck Pro-Lifers.
    Bababooey

  18. sueezee says:

    prolife: was very! …
    prolife: was very! close, the new one (10) is going to pass

    Whop cares. IF abortion becomes illegal in SD, The Local indians have made a deal w/ Planned Parenthood to build a reproductive clinic on their land…. out of the jurisdiction of the S.D state governemt! When will you people understand, abortion will never end.

  19. Batonfromage says:

    By the same token, …
    By the same token, most genocides have no effect on you either. Does that make them right? The belief that injustices should be ignored simply because they have no direct effect on you is a pretty selfish outlook.

  20. PROLIFE4130 says:

    it was very! close, …
    it was very! close, the new one (10) is going to pass

  21. PaopuHead2PickleHead says:

    Let’s put it this …
    Let’s put it this way, there are times where some women when checked are reported that they could possibly die during child birth because some of their bodies just can’t take the stress. Or maybe the woman was raped, should she have to struggle to raise another life when it wasn’t her choice to begin with. You’re walking a fine line by calling some parents ‘savages’ when you don’t take into consideration certain circumstances that constitutes their right whether or not to get an abortion…

  22. truthadvocate says:

    If men don’t have a …
    If men don’t have a right to decide what women do with their bodies, than certainly women have no right to decide whether or not to kill a male child as is clearly the case in partial birth abortion. I was adopted, thus my most basic human civil right to life was not stolen from me. Just because a fetus is dependent on another human for survival does not make a fetus something other than human. According to that twisted logic, children & the elderly are not human. I was not a human.

  23. nyXdeathXangel says:

    Fetus is what it …
    Fetus is what it medically is.

    “Unborn child” is a word you use to try and make people feel bad about getting abortions.

  24. oldfshngrl says:

    $130,000 a year… …
    $130,000 a year…are you serious? that is just ridiculous!

  25. ekongoli says:

    lets say that …
    lets say that abortion becomes legal in the world…what does that mean? that means the women who believ they should have abortions will practice their right and have them… so what? All the pro-lifers will sill stay away from abortion. you can argue the rights and wrongs all u want but even if it becomes legal, it has no effect on you.