Gov. Mike Rounds signed legislation earlier this year outlawing abortion, which is now on the ballot as Referred Law 6. Supporters of South Dakota's abortion ban are running misleading ads that claim the ban has an exception for victims of rape or incest, which is not true. Abortion is only allowed to prevent the imminent death of the mother.
Mike Rounds got into the act during a recent debate when he claimed there is an exception for rape or incest, because the legislature has not gotten around to banning emergency contraception. Never mind that emergency contraception is not an abortion, and that anti-choice activists tried to pass legislation outlawing emergency contraception here in South Dakota.
Our Democratic candidate for governor, Jack Billion, is a doctor and had some great quotes in the Rapid City Journal about Rounds' confusion on the issue:
"Billion, who opposes the law, said Rounds appears to be as confused as anyone about the reproductive process, emergency contraception and the fine points of the law. Considering that Rounds is the governor who signed the nation's most far-reaching abortion ban into law, his apparent confusion is particularly troubling, Billion said.
'Obviously, he has a layman's conception of conception,' Billion said. 'First of all, I don't think he's that familiar with the bill. But certainly, he's not familiar with the technical aspects of pregnancy and implantation and conception.'
The confusion also shows the folly of government trying to make legal decisions about the deeply personal complexities of a woman's reproductive system that should be left to the woman and her doctor, Billion said."
The full article is here:
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/...
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