The House has 16 measures on its Tuesday calendar, including House Bill 1208, Representative Steven Haugaard’s (R-10/Sioux Falls) effort to out-Kristi Kristi and ban abortion pills in South Dakota. Evidently alarmed at HB 1208’s narrow passage out of House Health and Human Services and the powerful tandem opposition coming from the Governor’s Office and Dakota Free Press, Beltway lobbying group Students for Life Action is waging a text campaign this evening to push House members to pass Haugaard’s pill ban.
An eager reader sends me these screen caps of the pro-HB 1208 text that hit the reader’s phone at 5 p.m.:
HB 1208 must have popped onto Students for Life Action’s radar pretty recently; they haven’t had time to add a pin to their map showing the state battles in which they are engaging:
Students for Life Action tells the IRS that its mission is to “restrict and abolish abortion state by state.” SFLA’s board includes former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Walker is one of seven men on the eleven-person board… meaning that the majority of the group’s board will never face the prospect of the government forcing them to bear children for the fatherland.
Students for Life Action is being nonfactual when it says “chemical abortion endangers women.” Kristi Noem herself has said banning abortion bills “could be detrimental to women who are going through very different situations.” Noe nis apparently taking to heart the assessment of scientific and medical evidence that Judge Karen Schreier cited to kill Noem’s own attempt to restrict access to mifepristone.
Just about four weeks ago, legislators received several calls whipped up by telemarketers pushing for House members to impeach Attorney General Ravnsborg. Speaker Spencer Gosch complained those telemarketers were using nonfactual information to influence legislators and vowed to investigate this nefarious behavior. Will Speaker Gosch take similar umbrage at Rachel and her fellow Students for Life Action telelobbyists for spreading misinformation to influence the vote on HB 1208?
What can you say, students for life lie? Just let them suck seed, its all over for the pubs if this happens to quickly. They hope to prevail slowly if not, its bye bye for the idiots. Business wise and voting wise. They won’t know what hit them.
The inept inbred Republicans in South Dakota cannot have an original thought or bill or about anything. The carpetbaggers have pretty much got control of leadership in Pierre by grab and/or telemarketing.
Dang, if the inept inbred Republicans aren’t making new trusting ways to washing money for bad people from all over the world, or dumbing down the education systems in the state, or encouraging old rock bands to show up in August or tolerating yesterday’s queen bee to be next America’s Governor or something or another, they took to recycling other state’s bills.
Originality in governance for SD is now in days gone past from January to March annually; it seems. Carpetbaggers! Inept inbred Republicans! As the saying, brought and paid for, goes, “we’re on it”, telemarketers are who is leading the pack.
Time for change in November. Let sparrow fly.
Ooo! House passed Haugaard’s abortion pill ban 40–27 today, with an amendment allowing abortion drugs to be used for other medical purposes. Meanwhile, House Health and Human Services removed the emergency clause from Noem’s competiting abortion pill restrictions in HB 1318, signaling that bill, like Haugaard’s can’t muster the 47 votes in the House necessary to approve an emergency bill.
https://www.rawstory.com/nebraska-women-gets-two-years-in-prison-after-giving-abortion-pills-to-teen-daughter/
Nebraska woman sentenced under a law that was meant for licensed abortion providers only.
Jessica Burgess, who took a plea deal, faced up to five years in prison. She pleaded guilty to providing an abortion after 20 weeks of gestation, tampering with human remains, and false reporting. As Jezebelnoted, the 42-year-old was charged even though the state’s 20-week ban that was in effect at the time applied to “licensed abortion providers, not people self-managing their own terminations.”