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You would think that Sarah Palin’s main contribution would be to fire up the Religious Conservative base. While her selection has definitely done that, an unforeseen side effect is that it has also been a boom for Planned Parenthood.
A three-week-old Internet campaign is asking abortion-rights activists to send donations to Planned Parenthood in honor of [...]
It’s time for another GOP convention so it also must be time for the quadrennial no exceptions fest. No rights for gays, no exceptions! No reproductive rights for women, no exceptions! Yada, yada, yada.
So while South Dakota is attempting to pass our annual anti-choice law, this time with rape, incest, and mother’s health exemptions, the [...]
Despite what some are saying, the Sioux Falls school board has rightly apologized for distributing a school directory containing an ad for the pro-life Alpha Center against their own policies.
“We would … like to apologize for this lapse. We will do better work in the future,” said Darin Daby, president of the board.
The ad, purchased [...]
From SD Watch:
The Sioux Falls PUBLIC School district has allowed the Alpha Center to advertise their anti-choice message in the student directory. As Todd and Planned Parenthood representatives in their response rightly note, what would the outrage have been if Planned Parenthood was allowed the same opportunity?
Todd has the Alpha Center ad in question and [...]
The prevailing opinion making the rounds in certain circles is that the ongoing lawsuit brought forward by school districts over the state’s lack of funding has no legal standing because of the use of tax dollars funding the lawsuit. What I find somewhat interesting is that many of these same sources would have no problem [...]
The American Psychological Association (APA) just completed a 2 year study on the mental effects of abortion and they find that there is no evidence that abortion causes any significant mental health issues.
“The best scientific evidence published indicates that among adult women who have an unplanned pregnancy, the relative risk of mental health problems is [...]
From the Rapid City Journal:
The South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families will open its office at 1315 Haines Ave., Suite C with an open house from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday.
“South Dakota’s families don’t need big Government telling them what they can and can’t do,” Republican and former State Representative Jan Nicolay, co-chairwoman of [...]
I’ve been busy with the paying job lately plus have a few other things that I am working on so in the meantime I thought I would drop a few links to things that caught my eye during my morning RSS feed reading routine.
Desperation or just a pathetic attempt to grab headlines - As Barack [...]
The religious right is at it again. Not only are those of us in South Dakota becoming the laughing stock of the women’s rights/health movement with our draconian new requirement that requires doctors to rewrite science when women seek abortions, the Bush administration now wants to label birth control as abortion so that heathcare providers [...]