Posted on 03/23/2006 4:46:45 PM PST by sgent
Pierre, SD (LifeNews.com) -- A South Dakota Indian tribe is throwing a monkey wrench into the state's plans to ban virtually all abortions in the state. Should the ban become law, one tribe says it will open up an abortion business on their tribal lands, which wouldn't be subjected to the abortion ban.
Cecilia Fire Thunder, president of the Oglala Sioux tribe of South Dakota, says Sioux nation sovereignty means the new ban doesn't apply. As a result, she said she will lead an effort to build a Planned Parenthood abortion center at the Pine Ridge Reservation.
“To me, it is now a question of sovereignty,” she told Tim Giago who runs a web site called Indianz.com.
“I will personally establish a Planned Parenthood clinic on my own land which is within the boundaries of the Pine Ridge Reservation where the State of South Dakota has absolutely no jurisdiction," Fire Thunder said.
A former nurse and health care worker, Fire Thunder is the first woman president of the Sioux nation.
"There's no requirement..."
True enough, but from what I've seen in the casinos around here, the Indians get the good jobs (the ones that don't require much work or where they get to be the boss) and the local non-tribals are the laborers. Is being a whore one of the "good" jobs? I don't know.
Citation, please.
The only good white embryo is a dead embryo.
Opening Remarks to the N.A.R.A.L. "Champions of Choice" Lunch
The Yale Club, Thursday, April 5th, 2001
As Delivered
Thank you very much for inviting me to say a few words of welcome. This event shows that people of different political parties and different political thinking can unite in support of choice. In doing so, we are upholding a distinguished tradition that began in our city starting with the work of Margaret Sanger and the movement for reproductive freedom that began in the early decades of the 20th century.
As a Republican who supports a woman's right to choose, it is particularly an honor to be here. And I would like to explain, just for one moment, why I believe being in favor of choice is consistent with the philosophy of the Republican Party. In fact, it might be more consistent with the philosophy of the Republican Party. Because the Republican Party stands for the idea that you have to restore more freedom of choice, more opportunity, more opportunity for people to make their own choices rather than the government dictating those choices. Republicans stand for lower taxation because we believe that people can make better choices with their money than the government will make for them, and that ultimately frees the economy and produces more political freedom. We believe that, yes, government is important, but that the private sector is actually more important in solving our problems.
So it is consistent with that philosophy to believe that in the most personal and difficult choices that a woman has to make with regard to a pregnancy, those choices should be made based on that person's conscience and that person's way of thinking and feeling. The government shouldn't dictate that choice by making it a crime or making it illegal.
I think that's actually a much more consistent position. Many Republicans support that position, but you don't hear that as often. For example, in a recent poll by American Viewpoint, 65 percent of Republicans supported changing the plank in the Republican platform that calls for a constitutional ban on abortion. That's 6.5 out of every 10 Republicans. And over 80 percent of Republicans believe that the decision with regard to an abortion should be made by a woman, her doctor, and her family rather than dictated by the government.
[Applause]
In any case, I just wanted you to know that many of my fellow Republicans stand with you on this issue. So I thank you, I thank NARAL for taking the lead in establishing freedom of choice for all of us, and as the Mayor of New York City, I thank you for being here in New York City.
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Okay?
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
They had Indians voting for Johnson who saw Lewis and Clark pass throught the state...
Well the may be for some nations. But not for all.
I am sure that like gambling, that was listed in their treaty, and part of their heritage.
What is that old saying "The only good Indian is a .............." SARCASM
We also get to tell Uncle Tonucci (pronounced Ta-nooch) that he either gets out of the business of providing technical assistance to the tribal gaming operation or we excommunicate his grandchildren and stop praying for the souls of his grandparents.
The original Black Elk (who fought as a warrior at Little Big Horn and then became a pagan shaman and then) converted to Catholicism in the World War I period which was never noted by the Congregationalist or Unitarian or atheist Harvard professor who interviewed him for the widely known distortion of a book known as Black Elk Speaks. The original Black Elk had many children. Some of his daughters were STILL alive in the 1990s to praise a major biography which set his record straight.
Next, we will split the Oglala subtribe by forming a Black Elk subsubtribe, getting GOP Congressional recognition, and take over the slots and the tables, the untaxed cigarettes and booze sales. We don't want this stuff near schools. That would be as the Buffalo (NY) don (a sort of tribal chieftain of the Sicilian tribe) said, an infamita (Godfather, The, 1972, scene of meeting in bank boardroom after partial recovery of Don Vito).
Then we re-establish office of tribal CHIEF of Oglala nation and subnations, depose Cecilia Fire Thunder as "President." President????? of Oglala Nation???????? and restore 'em traditional male power structure in tribe. Abort 'em Planned Barrenhood on sight retroactively. Likewise meshugganah (Lakota term favored by Jackie Mason of Catskills subtribe) nancyboys. Other lifestyle leftists get 'em same treatment. Tradition! Tradition! Ohhhh, Tradition! (Fiddler on the Roof).
If Hildy can claim to be conservative despite her enthusiasm for abortion, we can keep 'em our sense of humor about us as well.
Dan, may God bless you and yours.
That be 'em BIG NOOOOO. Good for them that Crazy Horse has passed or Cecilia Fire Thunder be mere ugggggly memory.
which is why it can't be left to the states when all is said and done.
May God bless you and yours, my old FRiend!
No need to get personal!
Ahem, see here!
But when people say they want "Roe v. Wade overturned", that's exactly what they're going to get - individual states making individual decisions.
A verrry good time travel movie could be made about..... NARAL and Rudy falling into the hands of Jonathan Edwards or other early Yale religious leaders. Make 'em Geronimo look like humanitarian peace creep.
"As the ancient screen actor Paul Muni said: Is this the end of RICO?????"
Too ancient to be remembered accurately, apparently, since it was Edward G. Robinson in "Little Caesar".
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