Many may have seen the fight that is currently going on to make South Dakota's league leading abortion laws even more restrictive with a 72 hour waiting period and as a special bonus the mandate to be counseled by religious anti-abortion advocates.
Well there's a new argument from a Republican legislator that I'm sure will make the state look really smart!
Rep. Brian Liss, R-Sioux Falls, who voted for the bill, said he thinks the measure would help ensure a thriving U.S. population.
“The United States is in a strategic competition with China. China is a country which has a military which teaches its soldiers to hate America, it’s a country that grows 10 percent a year economically, it has something like 1.4 billion people, and I think that we need to safeguard our economic growth and our population in order to compete with China,” Liss said, adding his argument for the bill is “completely secular.”