Dear Pro-Life Community
Get yourselves together. There are four weeks left before the elections, and the South Dakota referendum on the “Health and Human Life Protection Law” is the frontline of the battle over life right now in this country. It holds all the stakes. That’s why Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America and company have put all their forces into defeating that law.
Some of you are at odds with this, questioning whether it’s the right law at the right time with the right court. Short answer: yes. Look at the history of the Supreme Court, the two times it nearly overturned Roe and was reversed at the last minute by one vote, first by Justice O’Connor then by Justice Kennedy. Look at the monumental evidence presented to the South Dakota Legislature that led to the passage of the HB 1166 informed consent legislation. Which led to the HB 1215 abortion ban bill, and the law at the center of this referendum.
And the fact that Planned Parenthood did not challenge this in court, but instead took it to the people (uncharacteristic for them) hoping to confuse them into voting it down. This is a cosmic shift in the pro-life effort to win hearts and minds to the truth about the devastation that 33 years of legal abortion has wrought upon women and their unborn children. For the women, it’s had lasting scars. That’s aside from the lives of the children it has cost.
And look at the consequences of your split in some elections, like the Illinois gubernatorial race. During the primary, two pro-life leaders backed two different pro-life candidates, weakening the vote for any one candidate and allowing a pro-abortion candidate to face the pro-abortion incumbent. Some dedicated pro-life workers were furious over that split.
Between South Dakota’s human life protection law, and the Missouri amendment on human cloning and stem cell research, there’s a lot of work to do to inform the electorate more thoroughly and accurately than the mainstream media have done to this point. Let the election be based on the truth about human life, and not on the politics of any group that presumes to hold sway in a movement.
