Let The Thunder Roar

I'm really trying to figure out who men think they are benefiting when they come up with these laws. If every woman in the state locks their legs, men will have to go trolling across the border to another state to get laid - and that is if women in other states don't find them too ghastly. It's men - not women - who rape, are addicted to porn, buy hookers and think about sex every 6 seconds. Do they think that if women are forced to be far more discriminate in their partner choices, they will be able to control themselves? That's the same logic used by the Taliban that requires women to wear burkas. I'm nearly positive that this won't fly in the end but, really, who do they think they are kidding? This abortion ban, like rape, is about control. We'll see how righteous they are if they get control over abortion but lose access to women.

I am glad that this "Native" woman has stepped up and is creating a real challenge to these backwards buffoons.

'When Governor Mike Rounds signed HB 1215 into law it effectively banned all abortions in the state with the exception that it did allow saving the mother'’s life. There were, however, no exceptions for victims of rape or incest. His actions, and the comments of State Senators like Bill Napoli of Rapid City, SD, set of a maelstrom of protests within the state.

Napoli suggested that if it was a case of "simple rape," there should be no thoughts of ending a pregnancy. Letters by the hundreds appeared in local newspapers, mostly written by women, challenging Napoli's description of rape as "simple." He has yet to explain satisfactorily what he meant by "simple rape."

The President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Cecilia Fire Thunder, was incensed. A former nurse and healthcare giver she was very angry that a state body made up mostly of white males, would make such a stupid law against women.

"To me, it is now a question of sovereignty," she said to me last week. "I will personally establish a Planned Parenthood clinic on my own land which is within the boundaries of the Pine Ridge Reservation where the State of South Dakota has absolutely no jurisdiction."

For the life of me, I cannot see how the mealy mouthed women of South Dakota let it get this far in the first place. But, I am glad that someone is fighting for the rights of women. Le sigh!


(link via Feministe)