SD Abortion ban battle hits national press in AP Article
"We're David, they're Goliath," contended Leslee Unruh, head of the campaign group supporting the ban. Parked outside her VoteYesForLife.com office in Sioux Falls were cars with a blunt bumper sticker: "The Killing Stops Here."
The most recent independent poll, in July, found 47 percent of voters opposed the ban, 39 percent favored it, 14 percent were undecided. When asked if they would approve a ban with exceptions for rape and incest, support rose to 59 percent.
Unruh, who had an abortion years ago that she now regrets, says momentum is turning as more voters hear her side's core message: Abortion hurts women. In the event of defeat, she vows to keep fighting.
"Sometimes it's not about votes — it's about the truth," she said.
Jan Nicolay, a former school principal and Republican state legislator, is co-chair of the campaign to keep abortion legal. She knows the stakes are high.
"People from other states are telling me, 'You're in the limelight. Good luck. Please do everything you can to defeat it,'" she said.
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-Leslee Unruh
Really? Whatever happened to the VoteYesForBackAlleyAbortions crew claiming during the petition drive that they had overwhelming support for the ban?
This is South Dakota. They're trying to ban abortion. Who's really David?
Besides, if the ban isn't struck down, what would Leslee have to do then? But if it stopped, she can keep harping away at it - and make more money in the process.
This has been such a power trip for her.
Leslee's role is more like the Pharaoh trying to keep women from escaping the slavery imposed by rapists. May a plague of locusts descend on Leslee!
cruel...
:)
You were forced to discuss the abortion you paid (for your part of) when it was feared that in responding to your political attacks, the Daschle camp would use it to their political gain.
While "God has forgiven you" for your "young and foolish" mistakes (which we all make, you point out), it seems a reasonable question to ask -- why the woman who aborted your child is not front and center as a spokeswoman for the "Vote Yes on 6 / For Life" campaign.
Given the "Vote Yes" campaign's insistance that there are loopholes which only now exist as the "morning after pill," may we ask just how long you waited between conception and abortion? Was it longer than the time the "Vote Yes" literature says emergency contraception "works"?
Would your abortion have been allowed under the law we are being asked to affirm / repeal? Was it a case of rape or incest?
Given the "Vote Yes" campaign's insistance on how abortion emotionally cripples women, have you ensured that your first child's mother, if that's how you choose to remember her, has grown up to be as stable an adult as you have? And do you owe her financial remuneration for the pain and suffering you contributed to by your "young and foolish" sowing of oats? Would it equal the cost of raising the child to college age, or would she feel you owed her more?
Should the doctor who performed your shared abortion face retroactive punishment for the crime you paid to him to commit?
Where is the woman that did not become Mrs. Regier ... or do we deserve her side of the story?