“Enough is enough” already
When will the media get this right? Don’t hold your breath. So let’s set the record straight here, as I did for much of the past year on my radio show, when no one in the MSM was paying attention to it.
South Dakota is the frontline in the pro-life movement. Why? Because a group of crisis pregnancy center workers decided it’s time to take to court the issue of informed consent and challenge the law to actually give women the choice that the abortion movement claimed they always stood for.
I always wondered why, if it’s all about “choice,” the abortion movement was so unwilling to give women one. Why the combative resistance to ‘informed consent,’ which is required in any other medical procedure?
So the South Dakota crisis pregnancy center workers had enough experience with post-abortive women suffering devastating trauma afterward, and the Alpha Center took up a legal case to protect women’s rights to full informed consent.
What resulted eventually was House Bill 1166, informed consent legislation, that was immediately challenged by Planned Parenthood. The judge ruled in PP’s favor, and left the status quo in place for the long months that it took for the case to be dragged through the legal deposition and filing process.
The South Dakota Legislature put together an abortion task force to study all aspects of the procedure and its effects on the women of that state. Their findings filled a 71 page report that was delivered to the governor, Mike Rounds, last December. It is the most thorough, well-documented and well written report of its kind since Roe.
Based on that, the Legislature found that its duty to protect the constitutional rights and the well-being of the citizens of South Dakota could not co-exist with the legal procedure of abortion, and the abortion ban bill resulted. It was groundbreaking legislation, and Planned Parenthood didn’t even take it to court. In either the first case or one of the only cases of avoiding a court confrontation they stood to lose, PP took their cause to the people in a referendum, hoping to overturn the ban.
This article in the Washington Post is only the latest of a bombardment of disinformation in a campaign to turn public opinion against the best legislation in the country today to protect women and their unborn children.
Kayla Brandt had an abortion three years ago and instantly hated having done it. Now, hoping to stop other women from making the same choice, she is a public advocate for the most severe abortion ban in the nation.
“Severe?” Choice words the media use.
“I don’t want anyone to feel what I did,” Brandt says.
On the other hand, the article quickly adds…
Maria Bell is a Sioux Falls obstetrician-gynecologist who also joined the political fray for the first time, but on the opposite side. Appalled by the attempt to shut the state’s only abortion clinic, she says she would not be able to live with herself unless she worked to overturn the law.
“To think passing a law will stop abortion is incredibly naive,” Bell said.
That is wishful thinking on the frontline of the battle for life. The misinformation and the language are only going to grow in intensity.
“This has become the focal point in the country for the choice debate,” said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, which is channeling cash into the campaign. “The stakes are very high, especially for us to win in November and again say America is pro-choice, America doesn’t think politicians should be involved in these private decisions, and enough is enough.”
Yes, it is. Analysis to be continued…
