Neither Kristi Noem nor Marty Jackley really want patients to be “in the driver’s seat”… especially not lady patients. Congresswoman Noem has voted and will likely vote for a health care plan that denies low-income women to choose Planned Parenthood as their health care provider.
Attorney General Jackley, meanwhile, is working on our dime to help Alabama fight for yet another unconstitutional abortion restriction in federal court, because it’s not already hard enough for women to make their own medical choices.
NARAL Pro-Choice SD responds negatively to Jackley’s support for preventing women from choosing a safe abortion procedure:
“South Dakota families know that a woman’s health, not partisan politics, should drive important medical decisions. Yet Attorney General Jackley is pushing a medically unnecessary plan that would limit a woman’s access to basic health care and effectively put a politician’s judgment between you and your doctor,” said Samantha Spawn, interim executive director for NARAL Pro-Choice South Dakota. “South Dakota’s legislature rightfully rejected such a restriction last month. As a candidate for South Dakota’s governorship, Attorney General Jackley’s views are out of step with families across the state. It’s time for him to stop trying to substitute a politicians’ ideology for a doctor’s best medical judgment” [NARAL Pro-Choice SD, press release, 2017.03.22].
The South Dakota Legislature considered a bill similar to the unconstitutional Alabama abortion restriction this Session. House Bill 1189 was sponsored by many of the same Republicans who said they had to vote against Initiated Measure 22 because a judge had declared it unconstitutional. HB 1189 failed in its first committee hearing on a 7–6 vote.
In the past few days and late into the night Trump and Ryan were doing a lot of arm twisting and threatening the GOP congress with not supporting them in the 2018 mid-terms. It does make me wonder how well the republicans respond to threats.
Trump deserves to have a Democratic majority in 2018, it would probably drive him madder than he already is.
I reckon most of the constituents in SD consider themselves prolife, so if Jackley or Noem want their vote, this is the route to go. Too many people in SD value the life of the unborn child over the woman’s right to choose a health care provider. Until the mindset is reversed, I think SD will continue to be intolerant of abortion service providers.
At least Kristi has one. She’s totally wrong but she has the needed equipment to cast a vote.
Kristi “Would You Buy A Used House From This Woman? ” Noem has all she can do to maintain her GPA in Trump University. She, like Palin, maintains it is more important to look “hot”.
Just another incurious hillbilly out of soon to be polluted oily water.
Shouldn’t she go back to flipping burgers in some bowling alley and leave the work to real women legislators with critical thinking skills? She is an insult to educated women of all beliefs in SD.
Like Sarah with Franklin Graham passing out redemption kits and cookies to starving Inuit villages, Noem attempts to use SD Native care as a prop.
I anticipate an ag trip to Russia and the Ukraine.
Pfffft!
Indian health care as a prop—Lauren, we need to find a candidate with Indian cred who can run against Noem (assuming she prevails over Jackley) on that line.
That, Cory, is a premier idea!
I would be glad to help on that one.
Got a name or two in mind? (Actually, we could use nine names: Gov, Lt. Gov, SOS, AG, PUC, Treasurer, Auditor, School/Public Lands, and U.S. House!)