Stand Up South Dakota: Initiated Measure 11

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Monday, March 30, 2009

In the News

RAPID CITY JOURNAL
Journal's abortion ban tale takes Best News Story

DAKOTA WOMEN BLOG
Science: 1, Wingnuts: O

Breaking News: Jury Rules Unanimously in Tiller's Favor

SD WATCH BLOG
How the Abortion bans were Beaten in SD

Monday, March 23, 2009

One Side Tries New Strategy in Debate over Abortion

From the Minneapolis Star Tribune

A battle in S. Dakota showed the public is tired of polarized politics, an abortion-rights leader says.

Sarah Stoesz was standing in line at a car rental counter in Sioux Falls, S.D., when she felt the tectonic plates of abortion politics shift beneath her feet.

People around her were talking about abortion -- with strangers, in public. More shocking, they were embarrassed by the broad abortion ban their legislature had just passed. It made no exceptions for incest, rape or the health of the mother. "What kind of state are we from?'' one asked.

That was the moment when Stoesz, chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, saw an opening in a fight long defined by those who see it as black and white.

What she heard that spring day in 2006 were the outraged voices of everyone else in the vast middle -- people who saw it as gray.

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Friday, February 20, 2009

In the News

ARGUS LEADER
ND Senate approves abortion clinic signs

RAPID CITY JOURNAL
Controversial play postponed as director seeks new venue

MADVILLE TIMES
How to beat an abortion ban (pay attention, North Dakota)

Thursday, February 19, 2009

In the News

THE ARGUS LEADER
Pro-life advocates will start 40-day vigil

RAPID CITY JOURNAL
Lawmakers hear testimony on contraception

THE F WORD BLOG
Really? Again?

CAMPAIGNS AND ELECTIONS
South Dakota's Measure 11

Friday, December 26, 2008

In the News

ARGUS LEADER
Abortion Ban Attempt is SD's Top News Story of 2008

RAPID CITY JOURNAL
Abortion Ban Vote Rated by AP as State's top 2008 Story

RH REALITY CHECK
2008 Top Ten Wins for Women's Health

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

In the News

ARGUS LEADER
O'Connor's talk offers judicial perspective

Kids read, form opinions

CAPITAL JOURNAL
Letters Against IM11 need answered

THE CURVATURE.COM
SD anti-choicers are sad that women still have rights

Saturday, November 1, 2008

In the News

PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND
Fighting the Abortion Ban 2.0

DAKOTA WOMEN
The Circus is Coming to town

SOUTH DACOLA
2008 Election Predictions; UPDATED

KTIV
Abortion Ban Focuses Nation's Attention

RH REALITY CHECK
SD Abortion Ban in Dead Heat

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Rapid City Journal says vote NO!

RAPID CITY JOURNAL
By the Journal Editorial Board
Abortion Should Remain a Family Decision

No other issue in South Dakota this year has generated the same level of
emotion and attention as Initiated Measure 11 — the measure to ban abortions in
South Dakota with a few exceptions.

In 2006, the state’s voters rejected a similar measure, although one that contained no exceptions under any circumstances. That all encompassing ban has led to the 2008 version the state will vote on early next week.

We do not support Initiated Measure 11, and recommend a no vote.

Clearly the measure would be challenged and would likely make its way
to the Supreme Court. Remember, in 2006 the legal challenge and subsequent path
to the Supreme Court to challenge Roe v. Wade, was the intent of abortion ban
authors.

South Dakota should not be put in this position to run point on this
issue and then be forced to manage the legal costs for many years to come. The
state will be spending money fighting a battle it should not be involved with in
the first place.

What would a legal challenge cost the state of South Dakota? How many
millions of dollars should state taxpayers be asked to invest in a challenge to
a federal law rather than spending the same money on education, the highway
system or many of the other state needs?

Some in the medical community have concerns about the measure, pointing
out the standards imposed on the medical community could effect the doctor’s
treatment of a patient. The government and attorneys should not be making
decisions best left to a doctor and his or her patient.
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Sunday, October 26, 2008

Aberdeen American News Urges a NO vote on IM 11!

Vote no on Measure 11
2008-10-26

Initiated Measure 11 would prohibit abortions in South Dakota except in cases where the mother's life or health is at a substantial and irreversible risk, and in cases of reported rape and incest.

The American News is recommending a no vote on Measure 11.

Regardless of the reworked allowables presented in this measure (rape, incest, mother's health/life), we believe that Measure 11, at its base level, still intrudes where it shouldn't: government intervention in a supremely personal decision. Such an intensely intimate decision whether to undergo such a procedure belongs to the woman, her husband/partner, her family, her physician and her faith minister.

This is one place (among others) where government has no business interfering. We believe that many of the arguments for - and against - Measure 11 are saturated with political agendas that have no merit and do very little to provide tangible guidance for a woman who might be contemplating such a procedure.

In the United States there has been more written about the issue of abortion - any type or nuance - than almost any other subject in the past 25 years. Other than war it might be the most highly charged and divisive debate that occurs in America.

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Saturday, October 25, 2008

DAILY KOS: We're winning but it's close!

On behalf of Daily Kos, Research 2000 conducted a South Dakota Poll about Initiated Measure 11 from October 22 through October 24th. 600 likely voters who vote regularly in state elections were interviewed statewide by telephone.

42% say they're voting "yes."

44% say they're voting "NO!"

It's close folks. Email sstevens@ppmns.org to sign up for a shift to help out the Campaign for Healthy Families.

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