WP: S.D. Makes Abortion Rare Through Laws And Stigma

[kskiska]

Out-of-State Doctors Come Weekly to 1 Clinic

Tuesday, December 27, 2005; A01

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- The waiting room at the Planned Parenthood clinic was packed by the time the doctor arrived -- an hour late because of weather delays in Minneapolis.

It was clinic day, the one day a week when the only facility in South Dakota that provides abortions could take in patients. This time it was a Wednesday. The week before it was a Monday.

The day changes depending on the schedules of four doctors from Minnesota who fly here on a rotating basis to perform abortions, something no doctor in South Dakota will do. The last doctor in South Dakota to perform abortions stopped about eight years ago; the consensus in the medical community is that offering the procedure is not worth the stigma of being branded a baby killer.

South Dakota, those on both sides of the abortion debate agree, has become one of the hardest states in the country in which to obtain an abortion. One of three states in the country to have only one abortion provider -- North Dakota and Mississippi are the others -- South Dakota, largely because of a strong antiabortion lobby, is also becoming a leading national laboratory for testing the limits of state laws restricting abortion, both opponents and advocates of abortion rights say.

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[blueinindiana]

1. I want Roe overturned....

I want it overturned so this issue can really be in the face of women again. Once Roe is overturned, birth control pills for unmarried women will be next, then birth control pills for married women. I am so sick of this issue and all the bleeeding hearts crying about unorn children who care less about them after they are born.

I watched a frontline episode where someone who was fighting for the abortion clinic in Mississippi wished Roe was overturned also for the very same reason to put it back into womens faces.

I hate freaking do gooders who love the fetus and hate the child. Nosey people who wan tot run other people live.

I want Roe V. Wade overturned!

I want these freaks to shut the hell up.

[PassingFair]

4. Welcome to DU, Blue!

Glad to have your voice!

[depakid]

5. You're going to get your wish

The Dems aren't courageous enough to put up a fight to stop it, even though a large majority nationwide support reproductive rights. The same is true of many other issues the Dems have sold out- or allowed the right to co-opt.

And, you're absolutely correct- birth control is the real prize, followed by laws outlawing various sexual behaviors.

That's long been the far right's goal- though no one- least of all the Dems- cared to listen, despite the evidence. I am somewhat ambivalent at this point. Realistically, I'm pretty well sure it's going to happen- whether or not it galvanizes women or the left- I dunno at this point. I don't think most Americans care anymore what happens to anyone else but themselves and their immediate families.

Nor do I think a sizable plurality care about many if not most of the Bill of Rights (if they even know what's in it).

[MnFats]

2. Um, yeah. SoDak has long been the Mississippi of the North...

in many ways, not the least of which is the similarity in the treatment of Native Americans compared to the treatment of blacks in Mississippi.
No offense to SoDak DUers, but...

[aquart]

3. Stigma? What do they do to the guys?

[Skittles]

6. nothing, because they are really anti-women, not pro-life

misogynistic bastards is what they are

[MountainLaurel]

7. Kick

Because this is important information.