Post Roe v Wade abortion law in South Dakota only allows for exceptions to save life of mother
During a Sunday morning appearance on CNN, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem was asked whether she thinks there should be exceptions for survivors of rape and incest when it came to abortion laws.
Apparently, she does not.
Ms Noem’s interview with Dana Bash on *State of the Union *covered a wide range of topics given that the governor is seen as a leading contender to be Donald Trump’s running mate.
On abortion, she spoke in favour of the issue being decided by individual states post-Roe v Wade, referencing a decades-old trigger law that came into effect in her state after the Supreme Court struck down the 1973 decision.
Abortion is now banned in South Dakota, with the only exception being to save the life of the mother.
The whole “rape or incest” addendum needs to be called out for being bullshit. This is just a distraction. Conservatives don’t care about this point but use it to demonstrate how reasonable they are. They are not reasonable. Same party talking about lowering the age of consent and marrying cousins. Never pay attention to their words, only their actions.
Exactly. Especially when you consider that, in order to qualify for those exceptions, the pregnant women often have to prove their case in court.
This parody of a court proceeding usually takes so long to get started and complete that they’re past the arbitrary time limit for which there are no exceptions and leads them bankrupt from the legal expenses/loss of income for not having a job that lets them take time off.
Even the “to save the woman’s life” exception requires a ridiculous burden of proof that means most doctors won’t risk it.
The so-called exceptions are almost never granted, but still they get credit for being “more humane” for including them. Fuck that!
This exception has never made sense. If abortion is murder (it’s not) then it doesn’t matter if the would-be baby was conceived via rape. You can’t murder a 20 year old because they were conceived illegitimately.
It’s just a way to get fence sitters to side with the anti-abortion people
Cool…cool
It’s important for getting these laws struck down or voted out. Having no rape or incest exception is massively unpopular (75% oppose even in red states). But allowing an exception undermines their justification for making abortion illegal. You can’t have an exception and make the arguement that fetuses have personhood and therefore equal rights to the mother. Pressing on this issue makes a lose/lose situation for Republicans. They either lose at the ballot box or lose in the courts.