Comments on: A Loophole In The South Dakota Abortion Bill http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:37:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Christina http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-214426 Christina Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:35:41 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-214426 Alex, Munson sent Linda Padfield home with a mutilated five-month fetus still rotting in her body. The man went to medical school. You'd think he could count -- TWO arms, TWO legs. He pulled out ONE arm, ONE leg, a piece of skull, and a piece of torso. You'd think that he'd have had a clue that maybe he hadn't gotten it all. But I guess the prochoice spin is "It's better than a rusty coathanger." Alex, Munson sent Linda Padfield home with a mutilated five-month fetus still rotting in her body. The man went to medical school. You’d think he could count — TWO arms, TWO legs. He pulled out ONE arm, ONE leg, a piece of skull, and a piece of torso. You’d think that he’d have had a clue that maybe he hadn’t gotten it all.

But I guess the prochoice spin is “It’s better than a rusty coathanger.”

]]> By: Christina http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-214424 Christina Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:32:14 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-214424 Glen, Munson also sent Yvonne Mesteth home to die from sepsis after her abortion as well. Glen, Munson also sent Yvonne Mesteth home to die from sepsis after her abortion as well.

]]> By: Anna Grace http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-58381 Anna Grace Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:37:10 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-58381 FYI from South Dakota-all SD hospitals give information on the Morning After pill and There are Walmarts in Spearfish, Rapid City, Mitchell and two in Sioux Falls. They all provide this drug. Most folks can get this information fairly easily. FYI from South Dakota-all SD hospitals give information on the Morning After pill and There are Walmarts in Spearfish, Rapid City, Mitchell and two in Sioux Falls. They all provide this drug. Most folks can get this information fairly easily.

]]> By: Alex http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-13983 Alex Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:26:22 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-13983 I wonder how Glen Wishard feels about doctors who botch other surgeries!? Lots of people die during heart surgery, too. Glen, should heart surgery be banned? Is it an abomination? I wonder how Glen Wishard feels about doctors who botch other surgeries!? Lots of people die during heart surgery, too. Glen, should heart surgery be banned? Is it an abomination?

]]> By: Anna Kellen http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-11443 Anna Kellen Thu, 06 Apr 2006 18:32:39 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-11443 No its not that. Its self conceded people can't open up there minds a little. No its not that. Its self conceded people can’t open up there minds a little.

]]> By: john http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-11249 john Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:55:45 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-11249 Anna- Could it be that others don't think the same way you do? And this to all anti-abortionists. Anna-

Could it be that others don’t think the same way you do? And this to all anti-abortionists.

]]> By: Anna Kellen http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-11246 Anna Kellen Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:34:37 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-11246 Seems to me that the world can't stop blaming eachother for being messed up. Dog eat Dog world out there. Anyways abortions are wrong. I mean my god your mom brought you into this world, she could have killed you just as well think! Seems to me that the world can’t stop blaming eachother for being messed up. Dog eat Dog world out there. Anyways abortions are wrong. I mean my god your mom brought you into this world, she could have killed you just as well think!

]]> By: Justin Gardner http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-11157 Justin Gardner Wed, 05 Apr 2006 05:45:01 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-11157 <blockquote>For some reasons the Catholics don’t want to let people know that the morning after pill is an option…could it be because they are forcing their religion on others…?</blockquote> Hmm...could be...

For some reasons the Catholics don’t want to let people know that the morning after pill is an option…could it be because they are forcing their religion on others…?

Hmm…could be…

]]> By: Laura http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-11128 Laura Wed, 05 Apr 2006 02:32:29 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-11128 There are four out of state doctors that alternate coming in once a week to Sioux Falls to perform abortions. Part of the reason that the morning after pill is not very popular is that many of the hospitals, particularly in the SE part of the state, are run by Benedictine Catholics and the monastaries connected with them. For some reasons the Catholics don't want to let people know that the morning after pill is an option...could it be because they are forcing their religion on others...? There are four out of state doctors that alternate coming in once a week to Sioux Falls to perform abortions. Part of the reason that the morning after pill is not very popular is that many of the hospitals, particularly in the SE part of the state, are run by Benedictine Catholics and the monastaries connected with them. For some reasons the Catholics don’t want to let people know that the morning after pill is an option…could it be because they are forcing their religion on others…?

]]> By: Uncle Mark http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-7777 Uncle Mark Fri, 10 Mar 2006 03:15:28 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-7777 and available at your local walmart and available at your local walmart

]]> By: Glen Wishard http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-7746 Glen Wishard Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:44:42 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-7746 Correction: I was mistaken in the last post. There is currently one abortion provider in South Dakota, in Sioux Falls. For many years there was no provider, after the departure of Dr. Benjamin Munson. Munson was the sole provider since 1973. He allegedly provided illegal abortions before Roe. In 1977, a South Dakota woman named Linda Padfield died after a botched abortion in which most of the fetus was left inside of her, causing an infection. Munson was tried for manslaughter but was acquitted because there was no intent to kill. The case had a big effect on how people in SD view abortion. Correction: I was mistaken in the last post. There is currently one abortion provider in South Dakota, in Sioux Falls.

For many years there was no provider, after the departure of Dr. Benjamin Munson. Munson was the sole provider since 1973. He allegedly provided illegal abortions before Roe.

In 1977, a South Dakota woman named Linda Padfield died after a botched abortion in which most of the fetus was left inside of her, causing an infection. Munson was tried for manslaughter but was acquitted because there was no intent to kill. The case had a big effect on how people in SD view abortion.

]]> By: Glen Wishard http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-7744 Glen Wishard Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:23:02 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-7744 Just a couple of notes, Justin: Of course, the law does not make anybody a "murderer". Abortion has been impossible in South Dakota for a long time: There is no abortion provider in the state, and I don't believe there has been one for 20 years or so. So the popularity of morning-after pills (however popular those are) will remain unchanged. This bill won't shut down a single abortion clinic - not one. For my part, though, I hope it <a href="http://canisiratus.blogspot.com/2006/03/under-god-people-rule-on-south-dakota.html" rel="nofollow">shuts down Roe V. Wade.</a> NARAL, get your lawyers off their butts and let's go to court! Just a couple of notes, Justin:

Of course, the law does not make anybody a “murderer”.

Abortion has been impossible in South Dakota for a long time: There is no abortion provider in the state, and I don’t believe there has been one for 20 years or so. So the popularity of morning-after pills (however popular those are) will remain unchanged.

This bill won’t shut down a single abortion clinic - not one. For my part, though, I hope it shuts down Roe V. Wade.

NARAL, get your lawyers off their butts and let’s go to court!

]]> By: Callimachus http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-7711 Callimachus Thu, 09 Mar 2006 08:10:57 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/03/08/a-loophole-in-the-south-dakota-abortion-bill/#comment-7711 <a href="http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/2006/03/south_dakota_an.html" rel="nofollow">Sully raises an excellent point</a>. He says the South Dakota abortion-outlaw bill is a miscalculation "because it changes the subject to how exactly criminalizing abortion will be enforced. The pro-life activists don't want to go there yet, because it alienates a lot of people. But if we're going to go there at some point, why not discuss it now?" Why not, indeed? It wasn't slavery that made the North turn against the South. It was the Fugitive Slave Law, which forced their local law enforcement to intervene on behalf of the masters to capture runaways. Sully raises an excellent point. He says the South Dakota abortion-outlaw bill is a miscalculation “because it changes the subject to how exactly criminalizing abortion will be enforced. The pro-life activists don’t want to go there yet, because it alienates a lot of people. But if we’re going to go there at some point, why not discuss it now?”

Why not, indeed? It wasn’t slavery that made the North turn against the South. It was the Fugitive Slave Law, which forced their local law enforcement to intervene on behalf of the masters to capture runaways.

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