Posted on 11/06/2024 10:12:39 AM PST by Morgana
oters in South Dakota joined their fellow Americans in Florida and Nebraska in rejected a radical pro-abortion measure that would have ushered unlimited abortions into the state.
They rejected Amendment G that would have resulted in abortion on demand in the conservative Midwestern state.
The vote wasn’t close.
With 92% of the vote counted, South Dakota residents rejected the pro-abortion measure by a 59.7-40.3 percentage point margin.
“The demise of pro-abortion Amendment G is an enormous victory for life,” said SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser. “Unborn children will still be protected in the great state of South Dakota thanks to leadership from Sen. John Thune, Rep. Dusty Johnson and Gov. Kristi Noem. Precious boys and girls will live as a result of this vote, and the state will be immensely better off as they grow to fulfill their God-given purposes Voters have rejected placing late-term abortion in the constitution in favor of South Dakota’s life at conception law that protects the lives of women and unborn babies at every point.”
“South Dakota is a beacon for how the pro-life movement can win future ballot measure fights. When the pro-life leaders speak up and expose the lies of the abortion industry, life wins,” she told LifeNews.
Before the vote, Michael Pauley, the executive director of the South Dakota Catholic Conference, compared the importance of voting in the upcoming election to the importance of stopping to help somebody if their car was overturned and there was nobody else around.
“We’re morally obliged to stop and help,” he said about the people in the overturned car, “especially when we know that our decision could make the difference between life and death.”
“Unfortunately, this sense of moral clarity doesn’t always extend to other realms of life, such as our responsibility to vote and participate in political life,” Pauley continued.
He stated that South Dakota’s pro-abortion amendment, known as Amendment G, is a life-or-death issue.
“The outcome will determine whether thousands of preborn girls and boys have a chance to be born, or whether their lives will come to a violent end through abortion,” Pauley wrote. “A ‘no’ vote on G gives these babies a chance to be born. But if a majority vote ‘yes,’ these babies will die. That is the stark choice before us. Only rarely is an issue of such eternal significance placed into our hands.”
THANK YOU GOD!!!
I’m posting the updates from last night
Something similar happened in Florida.
Totally unrestricted abortion isn’t as popular as radical democrats think.
SD resident here. Our Catholic Bishop and local pastors here worked really really hard to defeat this. It was a real grass roots effort.
Oh yes I posted about it last night!! you better believe I was watching.
NY predictably passed prop 1 essentially ending parental rights over their own children- they hid this by disguising hte bill as a ‘women’s rights bill” (to commit murder of their unborn) which a lot of women in NY unfortunately supported- but the bill snuck in dangerous anti-family measures in the background
Protecting “gender identity” and “gender expression” alone gives biological men the right to participate in women’s sports (and to injure them physically), to live in women’s dorms, to wash in women’s gym showers, and to be incarcerated in women’s prisons — all controversial actions that are already happening, albeit without explicit legal validation.
But because Section A also protects “age,” it creates transgender rights without age discrimination — meaning full rights for children, not just adults, to alter their “gender identity” and “gender expression.”
“Full rights” means parents can be legally liable for stepping in to stop their own child’s choice, based on an all-too-common passing fancy, to receive irreversible chemical treatments or surgical procedures.
https://nypost.com/2024/11/03/opinion/nys-prop-1-a-legal-trojan-horse-smuggling-discrimination/
Was it 8-2 on the ten?
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