The Democrats’ most competitive gubernatorial candidate in several cycles, Senator Billie Sutton, cast a triangulating vote on January 22 on a feckless resolution endorsing South Dakota’s anti-union…
Tag: abortion
While our various elected officials and candidates grandstand their commitment to “life” by rallying with groups who seek to ban abortion, the Pew Research Center…
Donald Trump probably hasn’t read The Handmaid’s Tale. But his failed effort this week to use his power to restrain a young woman from having an…
Some of my readers have asked me where South Dakota’s main Democratic candidate for governor, Senator Billie Sutton, stands on women’s reproductive rights. At peril…
The rate of women dying due to pregnancy has steadily increased in the United States over the last three decades: Since the Republican seizure of a majority…
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…
Revenues are dwindling, the budget is in peril, but Happy Valentine’s Day, ladies! The South Dakota Legislature spent this afternoon chipping away at your bodily autonomy. House Bill…
South Dakota’s 2011 law forcing women to sit through anti-abortion propaganda before aborting a pregnancy just took another scientific hit. A new study in JAMA Psychiatry finds that abortion…
On Sunday morning, in an effort to put another lengthy pro-choice discussion into a more concrete context, I posed the following specific, practical, ethical question…
I may not win South Dakota Right to Life’s endorsement, but at least they find me more interesting than my opponent in the District 3 Senate race.…