paging Margaret Atwood...

[anotheranon]

Handmaid's Tale isn't here yet, but it's in the post (link courtesy betnoir) >:(

No provision for the health of the mother. If you're dying that second, your doc might be able to do something, but otherwise all bets are off. To wit: (via Feministe):

if giving birth is going to cause massive kidney damage which will likely kill her after childbirth, no exception. If giving birth is going to force doctors to perform a hysterectomy, no exception. If the fetus has such a severe birth defect that it will die before, during or immediately after birth, no exception — the woman will be forced by the state to bring a doomed pregnancy to term, and to go through the dangers of childbirth for a fetus that will never live when she could have had a safer procedure.

For the benefit of socially liberal sorts in SD (and I know there are at least two), pass around: Princeton's emergency birth control site, including how to use regular prescription BC as morning after pills, if need be.

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[kat1392.livejournal.com]

Since the house has already passed the bill once, it looks like the bill will pass. And the governor will more than likely sign. I knew the state was in trouble when they elected John Thune to the national senate on the basis of being against gay marriage. :(:(

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

What galls me is that the main sponsor of this bill is a Democrat. Since the 1990s I've thought of the Democrats as being the other side of the coin to conservative Republican's disdain for women's rights, now I do wonder :(

[kat1392.livejournal.com]

In SD, Democrats are Republicans with a different name.