By Ed Randazzo
Planned Parenthood is apparently threatened by a bill in the SD Legislature. HB1217 would require a doctor scheduling an abortion (pronounced infanticide) to actually meet with the woman having the procedure at least 72 hours prior. It would also require the woman to consult with a pregnancy help center for services available to her to have and keep the child. Now there’s a radical idea.
The doctor would be terribly inconvenienced under this law to actually meet with a woman who is about to commit to a procedure that will likely affect her for the rest of her life.
Planned Parenthood is so intimidated that thay are rolling out the big guns here by having their spokesperson, Kathi Di Nicola, state that Planned 
Parenthood has “attorneys carefully looking at this legislation.” Threats such as these notwithstanding, the bill sponsored by Representative Roger Hunt (R-Brandon) sailed through the House and the Senate Health and Human Services Committee and just yesterday passed the full Senate. A special thank you to all the senators who voted for this bill.
What is Planned Parenthood afraid of? The loss of the $600-$900 fee for services to terminate the life of a child and likely victimize a woman and a man for the rest of their lives.
I hear on the news that the local branch of the pro-abortion groups are organizing a pressure campaign to stop the Governor from signing it. We’ll see if South Dakota is ruled by the people through their representatives or by greedy special interests.
Maybe their not afraid of anyone. Your saying so certainly doesn’t make it true. Perhaps P.P. and the A.C.L.U. are defending the Constitution of the United States, and Roe v Wade. It could be they view themselves as patriots,just as you view yourself.
At any rate, the people of S.D. will simply refer and defeat this bill, if it passes and incredibly it looks as if it may. But the Governor could veto it too, that’s a real possibility. Here’s a link with the rest of the story on this issue. The Dr. wasn’t allowed to speak, maybe the bill’s sponsors were “afraid” of him.
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/opinion/columnists/local/article_5cb55e1a-3bbc-11e0-be61-001cc4c002e0.html
Too late….you lose.
I haven’t lost a thing. One never “loses” the war when defending the Constitution of the United States. A few battles are lost on the way to victory, but victory always belongs to those of us who defend our Constitution from those who would disregard it in favor of their personal religious convictions. It is the will of our Founders.
And I expect a full admission you were wrong when the 2005 bill still working it’s way through the courts is tossed out, and the Governor vetoes this bill, or it’s tossed by an Appellate Court.
You, in defense of the Constitution? That’s rich!!!
Not as “rich” as you doing God’s work!
Hunt’s bill was written by a man from New Jersey, a hired gun attorney who specializes in extreme agendas and law. So much for the conservative claim all the pro-choice money and motivation originates out of state. I wonder if the anonymous million dollar donor to Hunt’s shell cooporation during the last defeat of the referred anti-choice law is from NJ too?
Regardless of the original source of the bill (your credibility on statements such as this is dubious at best), it passed the SD Legislature. That makes it a SD bill. I don’t wonder where Planned Parenthood’s money comes from, it comes from the taxpayers and the victims of the abortionists and from those “out of state” interests as well. So what’s so noble about that?
So much for the tea party mantra, limit government and let local control rule. A NJ attorney writing laws for S.D. Really? I guess tea party convictions are only skin deep and get tossed aside as a means for the end to justify the means.
You don’t think NJ people are Americans?