click here for the addresses of the legilators who voted to pass HB 1215,

Read my proposed "Child Health and Life Protection Act"requiring involuntary organ donations, based on HB 1215.

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Why I Am Sending Coathangers to South Dakota Legislators

The State of South Dakota has outlawed abortion under any circumstances, save the imminent death of a woman. Raped? Too bad. By your father? Sorry sister. A fetal abnormality that would lead to a short, miserable life of terrible suffering? Break out the cigars!

Think this is just about South Dakota? Think again. Not surprisingly, Missisippi and Tennessee immediately followed suit, but the real threat is the purposeful crafting of this law for appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in order to overturn Roe v. Wade. This is a direct assault on the rights of every female in the United States of America.

The issue is not whether a woman with an unwanted, crisis pregnancy will end it, but how.  History proves beyond any doubt that a woman in such circumstances will attempt to terminate the pregnancy - by any means, and often at grave risk to her own life, health and safety. Why would she risk so much? Because she is abolutely certain that continuing this pregnancy is the wrong thing to do. She is the only person on the planet who is in any position to make that determination -not you or me, or the South Dakota legislature, or theocrats on the Supreme Court.

Culture of life? Please. By outlawing safe, legal abortion, South Dakota condemns every women to the dark ages of unscrupulous, unlicensed and unsanitary abortionists, with all of the needless suffering and death that will certainly follow, as sure as night follows day.

A woman must have the right to make such a decision based on her own moral reasoning. It's called freedom, and I thought that was what this country stood for, what so many have died and sacrficed for. Don't want an abortion? Don't have one. See how freedom works? (Not like, say, China.)

Make no mistake: South Dakota has declared that every woman is incompetent to determine when, how, and under what circumstances she will bear a child. No, the Government, with its intimate understanding of her personal circumstances, has proclaimed that she must always carry a pregnancy to full term, at any cost. In South Dakots's wisdom, childbearing is always in a woman's - and her family's - best interest.

I wonder how, exactly, China's one-child-per-couple policy employing forced abortions, is any less morally repugnant?

The Souh Dakota law disingenuously states that a potential human being, of the sort composed of even a single cell carrying human DNA, is of "equal worth" to the potential mother, who is - at least theoretically, if not Constitutionally - an actual human being. But this "equal worth" pretense is nothing but an obvious and patronizing LIE. Because to demand that a woman host a fetus for nine months, to require that she bring a human into the world at all costs, this law is crystal clear about whose worth trumps whose.

Now about that "Christianity," from whence ideas such as HB 1215 are so deeply rooted, nurtured, and hatched, yet not even the National Organization of Women, NARAL, the Democratic Party, nor Planned Parenthood will dare to simply address.

I believe the American value of freedom is worth great sacrifice. I believe that freedom cannot co-exist with theocracy, the state where faith - which is by its very definition irrational - trumps all reason and logic and sanity and morality. I see my beloved country moving closer to this every day. It is irrefutably, undeniably anti-American.

These bumbling theocrats in South Dakota (and those on the Supreme Court, take your pick) don't even have it straight. Scriptures say absolutely nothing about abortion, although Moses, Jesus, and Paul et al. certainly had ample opportunity to condemn it. But more importantly, the Bible explicitly endorses the view that:

(1) "life" begins at "breath," not conception.

(2) a fetus is not a human being. And,

(3) the life of a mother is of far greater value than any fetus.

(See, e.g., Genesis 2:7, and Exodus 21:22-25.)

It might prove enlightening if those who would enthusiastically embrace so great an evil as HB 1215 would actually read such texts. But I am not very optimistic about that.

Despite all of this, some legislators in South Dakota have voted for coat hangers. That's why I'm sending them.

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Click here to read about Dr. McCreary, 70, who came out of retirement to provide abortions to women in South Dakota because LOCAL DOCTORS WILL NO LONGER DO SO,