Christian Intruders: New Law Will Force Women to Listen to Religious Lectures Before Getting an Abor

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http://www.alternet.org/sex/150345/christian_intruders%3A_new_law_will_force_women_to_listen_to_religious_lectures_before_getting_an_abortion/
AlterNet / By Amanda Marcotte
Christian Intruders: New Law Will Force Women to Listen to Religious Lectures Before Getting an Abortion
South Dakota hit a triple, attacking reproductive rights, privacy rights and religious freedom with a law aimed at the state's one remaining abortion clinic.
March 23, 2011 |

In our new era of relentless, abusive laws aimed at curtailing women’s reproductive rights, it takes a lot to stand out from the crowd, but South Dakota managed to do just that on Tuesday, when Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed into law a bill requiring a three-day waiting period -- the longest waiting period in the nation -- for any woman seeking abortion.

But even that is not what makes this law stand out. That honor goes to the requirement that women seeking abortion must go to a crisis pregnancy center, to submit to a lecture on the supposed evils of abortion; a lecture that will almost surely include misinformation on the dangers of abortion. In passing this law, South Dakota hit a triple, attacking reproductive rights, privacy rights and religious freedom with one law aimed at the single abortion clinic left in the entire state of South Dakota.

That the anti-choice movement is mostly a Christianist movement bent on imposing its religious beliefs on the public at large is one of the most under-discussed aspects of the abortion debate. This law should highlight the theocratic underpinnings of the anti-choice movement. Most and probably all crisis pregnancy centers are religious organizations that object to abortion because it conflicts with their religious dogma about female sexuality, women’s roles, and their belief about when the soul enters the body. Requiring women to sit through a lecture on Christian ethics about sexuality before getting an abortion should be a clear-cut case of a violation of the establishment clause of the First Amendment, even if the crisis pregnancy centers are careful to avoid saying the word “Jesus” too much...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. This is so clearly wrong.

I hope they are challenged in the courts, big time.

It just makes me sick.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. Separation of church and state?

[derby378]

2. If you just couldn't be bothered to vote in South Dakota last year...

...this is what happens when you sit the polls out.

And yeah, I'm sick, too.

[CTyankee]

3. What happens to a Jewish woman seeking an abortion?

Couldn't she sue the state on the grounds of the Separation of Church and State in the First Amendment?

[Rex]

5. Holy fucking shit.

I would say the courts will strike this down...oh wait, we have the SCOTUS from hell. NM.

[femrap]

6. this could make a

good movie...I think I'll just pretend I'm pregnant just so I can f*ck w/ these people and film them.

There were some anti-choice men w/ signs outside a 'fake abortion' center. I pulled over and yelled, 'GOD HATES YOU.' Not a peep from the turds.

[eleny]

8. i love fierce people like you!

[Tesha]

7. Perhaps someday all the women who still vote for Republicans...

...will learn to stop doing that. That would
instantly end this foolishness.

Tesha

[Dawson Leery]

9. These right wing reactionaries are for the rights their kind only.

:puke:

Clearly this is a violation of the First Amendment.

[Permanut]

10. So let me get this straight...

if I want to be a perfect teabagger, I should be for smaller government, except when I'm for bigger government. Okay, got it.

[hlthe2b]

11. Well that is blatantly unconsitutional..

What assholes.