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Planned Parenthood South Dakota Plans to Defy Law, Continue Committing Abortions
LifeSiteNews ^ | 3/9/06 | Terry Vanderheyden

Posted on 03/09/2006 10:06:36 AM PST by wagglebee

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota, March 9, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota (PPMNS) said it will defy a law passed Monday that bans all abortions in the state.

“We will not abandon the women of South Dakota,” said Sarah Stoesz, PPMNS President and CEO, according to a release. “Our clinics in South Dakota will remain open and we will continue to serve the women and men of this state by providing family planning services, emergency contraception, and safe, legal abortion care.”

On Monday, South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signed into law the first abortion ban in the United States since the 1973 Supreme Court Roe vs. Wade decision. The bill, House Bill 1215, passed with strong bi-partisan support in both houses and makes abortion a felony in the state, punishable by up to five years imprisonment. It is to go into effect this July.

Stoesz also vowed to challenge the new law in court. “Planned Parenthood will challenge this law in order to protect the health and rights of the women and families we serve,” she said.

Meanwhile, a South Dakota pro-life advocate who was instrumental in promoting the law there was the victim of harassment and vandalism. Leslee Unruh, who founded the Alpha Center to encourage pregnant women to choose life, told Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink news that her family has become a target from pro-abortion zealots.

Unruh related to CitizenLink how her home has been splattered with eggs and that coat hangers have been left in their mailbox. Her husband’s chiropractic office has also been targeted by pro-aborts leaving dead animals on the grounds, with some employees afraid to come into work. She was even told by her favorite coffee shop not to come back.

“They said, ‘We have a choice as to who we serve, and we choose not to serve you,’” she related. “They were careful to emphasize the word ‘choice.’”

See CitizenLink coverage:
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0039731.cfm

See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Abortion Ban Signed into Law by South Dakota Governor
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/mar/06030603.html
Complete Ban on Abortion Passes South Dakota Legislature, goes to Governor
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/feb/06022304.html




TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: South Dakota
KEYWORDS: abortion; infanticide; plannedparenthood; prolife; theendofroe
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To: whadido
States have the last say. This law will most likely be struck down, but not because it is illegal, but because the SCOTUS acted illegally with roe vs wade. ABSOLUTELY. Maybe it's time for state governments to start using a little "civil disobedience" of their own (if that's the proper phrase) & completely ignore the SCOTUS when or if they do strike down the South Dakota law. Didn't Thomas Jefferson say something to the effect of "...let them enforce it" re: the SCOTUS? The states need to begin to assert their 10th Amendment right to govern themselves for a change!

The creeping infringement by the Federal Goverment in states' internal matters is unsettling. That said, if many states ban abortions outright, it will create new problems as well. I think the status quo where abortion before viability is legal, but with reasonable state regulation, is okay for now.

61 posted on 03/09/2006 11:10:36 AM PST by TampaDude (If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the PROBLEM!!!)
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To: balrog666
A sharp entrepeneur could probably make a quick buck just running a daily bus line to the nearest clinic across state lines.

You know, I was thinking the same thing. Watch abortion clinics open up just across the border in neighboring states.

62 posted on 03/09/2006 11:12:25 AM PST by TampaDude (If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the PROBLEM!!!)
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To: balrog666

Probably not enough business to be profitable. I think SD has like 800 abortions a year. That said, there's nothing to stop women from traveling to neighboring states or Canada if they really want to.


63 posted on 03/09/2006 11:20:11 AM PST by Ace of Spades (Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: bobbdobbs

We also have State law. Abortion should never have been made legal. Roe v. Wade was based on lies and therefore should not stand as the law of our land. Anything that can tople this law is fine with me.


64 posted on 03/09/2006 11:24:21 AM PST by conservative blonde (Conservative Blonde)
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To: Campion

Court precedents based on lies like Roe v Wade was should not be honored by succeeding Supreme Court decisions.


65 posted on 03/09/2006 11:28:34 AM PST by conservative blonde (Conservative Blonde)
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To: wagglebee
New laws in South Dakota don't go into effect until the July 1st following the legislative session unless the legislature includes an emergency clause...not the case here. I am sure there will be a court injunction in place to stop any enforcement of this law during the appeal process so there really won't be any defiance of the law even after July 1st. It will be business as usual for Planned Parenthood in South Dakota until such time as a definitive court decision is rendered. If the law is rejected from consideration by a federal appeals court...all this effort is simply moot and nothing will have even temporarily changed.
66 posted on 03/09/2006 11:36:23 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Mir wölle bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: NC28203
Interesting issue for me...I am pro-choice, but I am also a strong states' rights advocate. I think that if the people of South Dakota want to ban abortions, then they should be allowed to do so. Women can just go to a neighboring state to get the abortion done, anyway. It seems the main reason for this law is to set up a challenge in the SCOTUS over Roe v. Wade in the new "more conservative" Court. The pro-lifers may be in for a rude shock, however, because both Roberts and Alito are Constitutional conservatives, and will likely NOT vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, but keep the status quo, which is "let each state decide".

to answer coherently, which I failed... sorry...

Being pro-choice... I am pro-choice and pro-life.

With choice is consequence. be it good or bad.

I do believe it is a poor choice to terminate a pregnancy based on convenience. I also believe that a woman/girl who so chooses is not capable in making correct choices all together. Like I stated, if you think it's an expectant mother having an abortion, what is she expecting to be a mother of? You make a choice, you must face the consequences.

And I agreed with you, States should have the final say...it isn't a federal issue.

67 posted on 03/09/2006 11:49:55 AM PST by Zavien Doombringer (Mr. Franklin, what form of customes did you create in Tiajunna? A beeber, Madam, if you can stune it)
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To: wagglebee
Game on.

I am tired of all the posturing. Lets just end the infanticide.
68 posted on 03/09/2006 11:52:24 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: wagglebee

Shut it down, arrest the perps and toss their asses in jail.

that's what you do to law breakers.


69 posted on 03/09/2006 11:55:30 AM PST by Leatherneck_MT (An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.)
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To: wagglebee

All that organ harvesting and abortions are Beeeg bidness. They won't go down without a fight.


70 posted on 03/09/2006 12:32:26 PM PST by Kokojmudd (Outsource US Senate to Dubai! Put Walmart in charge of all Federal agencies!)
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To: Aquinasfan

>>>Do rights come from the Constitution or from God? If God, then does He give us the right to murder unborn children?>>>

I am not disagreeing with you theologically, but legally I am. Evil is an opinion based word.


71 posted on 03/09/2006 12:33:21 PM PST by sandbar
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To: bobbdobbs

Apparently, you're wrong...


72 posted on 03/09/2006 12:34:29 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Spontaneous combustion occurs most often in Democrats)
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To: vpintheak
They better fry these murdering sacks of crap. I was outraged that nothing has happened to the freaks that said screw the law we are issuing gays marriage licences, and now this. These lefties need to be taught a lesson in the law and respect.

What do you suggest, camps, maybe, or will you just handle things yourself?
Hint: They're not ALL lefties. Some just are't so far to the right that they hang off the side.
74 posted on 03/09/2006 12:44:08 PM PST by BritExPatInFla
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To: bobbdobbs

####In essense, if the other branches had the power, they've waived it.####

Roe is outright unconstitutional, but the other branches of government have indeed waved their power. This is largely because of three reasons. 1) Leftists controlled Congress for most of the post-war years. They ideologically agreed with the left-wing power grabs the Court began making after the war, so they let them stand. 2) Leftists have controlled the media, so they likewise have enshrined leftist rulings as "historic landmarks", painting them as sacrosanct and inviolable. 3) Politicians of all stripes would rather have hot button issues decided by the Court. Remember when Arnold said he thought the "gay marriage" issue should be decided by the courts? As the courts have seized unconstitutional power, politicians have allowed them to get away with it to avoid having to take a firm stand on divisive issues.


75 posted on 03/09/2006 12:58:00 PM PST by puroresu (Conservatism is an observation; Liberalism is an ideology)
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To: wagglebee
“We will not abandon the women of South Dakota,” said Sarah Stoesz, PPMNS President and CEO, according to a release. “Our clinics in South Dakota will remain open and we will continue to serve the women and men of this state by providing family planning services, emergency contraception, and safe, legal abortion care.”

Well, thats it then. We'll just have to bring in the bulldozers and have Licenses and Inspections knock down their abortuary as a threat and hazard to human life and health.

76 posted on 03/09/2006 1:00:51 PM PST by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: Hermann the Cherusker

Let them feel free to break the law and be imprisoned: after all, we have been told for years to "respect Roe v. Wade" no matter how much it bothered us. Now the shoe is going to be on the other foot.


77 posted on 03/09/2006 1:57:33 PM PST by juliej (juliej)
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To: Leatherneck_MT

That is what THEY do to lawbreakers (such as to Operation Rescue). Now they will know how it feels.


78 posted on 03/09/2006 1:59:36 PM PST by juliej (juliej)
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To: Hermann the Cherusker

"Abandon the women of S. Dakota" - we know they abandoned the babies!


79 posted on 03/09/2006 2:00:57 PM PST by juliej (juliej)
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To: Coleus

Lock 'em up and throw away the key!


80 posted on 03/09/2006 2:39:58 PM PST by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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