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Should South Dakota Pass the Abortion Ban?

In 1973, the Supreme Court made one of its most controversial decisions, declaring most anti-abortion laws unconstitutional. Now on November 4th, the people of South Dakota will head to the polls to vote on a proposed statewide abortion ban. With emotions running high on both sides, how should abortion be legislated in tomorrow’s America? (Editor's Note: On November 4th, South Dakota voters rejected Measure 11 to ban abortion.)

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Emotion and Law are not the same

lostlo

you ever hear of adoption? Check into the amount of couples that are trying to adopt sometime. "Genetically deformed" and everything. The problem with you people is you don't see the baby as a real person. It's all about the poor innocent woman. Give me a break. NO sex, NO baby is the free available low-cost birth control. After that, you have responsibility. Remember that? It's the baby that is innocent in this whole issue, not the parent.

- robbyjon October 20, 2008 2:23PM

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- robbyjon
  
  First of all, what is with the "you people"? Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and shouldn't be classified in a group like that.
  
  And yes, there are tons of people that want to adopt babies. But what happens to the baby that doesn't get picked? Or the baby that becomes a burden to the adopting family? He/she ends up in foster care bouncing between homes, possibly never knowing one set of parents as their own. Not to mention the kids that end up with various problems because their parents decided they couldn't handle the responsiblity, and rather than keep the child and raise them in an unfit manner, decide to give them up for adoption.
  
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  - only1
    
    In my (sadly, lengthy) experience with the women who are drug addicts, those that do not abort unwanted pregnancies very, very rarely put them up for adoption. Instead they keep them in extremely dangerous and abusive home situations. Even those that are given away are frequently born addicted to drugs, which is a tough way to start life. For some reason pro-life arguments about the rights of the unborn child only seem to extend to its right to life; I've never heard anyone argue for a child's right to not be born virtually guaranteed to have a short, painful life of addiction.
    
    I personally think that abortion is abhorrent and would never have one, but to criminalize just seems completely insane to me. I've never had anyone actually answer my position, just launch off on the litany of what an awful person I am and how innocent the unborn are. "You people" is exactly what I've come to expect.
    
    - lostlo October 22, 2008 3:21PM
    
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- robbyjon
  
  Yes, I have heard of adoption. I think you'll find if you had actually read my comment and not just what you wanted to see, I never said that I thought abortion was right or good. I was arguing about the legality of it.
  
  Saying "everyone should just be responsible" is all well and good, but that's a completely absurd proposal to actually solve any problems. You might as well say that the solution for our health care system is for people to just stop getting sick. The housing crisis can easily be solved by everyone being more responsible with their money.
  
  I live in the real world, and in the real world criminalizing abortion does not help unborn babies, no matter how innocent. It merely makes abortion unsafe.
  
  I welcome your comments on the issue of how criminalizing abortion actually causes the loss of more lives. If you want to take the stance that women who would seek abortion deserve to die, you are welcome to that opinion, but again it doesn't really seem to be pro-life.
  
  - lostlo October 22, 2008 3:16PM
  
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- Another case of cofusing the Personal with the responsible
  
  First, "you people" is not a very polite way of addressing people.
  Second, a baby implies birth has happened and no one disagrees about the human life of a baby. The problem is the pro life side trying to redefine a baby and moving it backwards until it means a zygote.
  Third, No sex may be a preferable way for you to live your life, I pass no judgment on that. However that is you, there are many of us that consider having sex a natural, healthy, beautiful fun experience and see no compelling reason why an accidental fertilization should be the standard of judging whether we are responsible people or not.
  Fourth, we have responsibility only after we have made the personal choice of keeping a fertilized egg.
  
  - mangueken February 28, 2009 10:15AM
  
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