TomPaine.com - What Women Want

Money issues like the ones above are on everyone’s radar, female and male alike. But the 900-pound gorilla of ballot initiatives for women would overturn the abortion ban passed in South Dakota last spring. With no exceptions for rape, incest or damage to women's health, the statute outlaws all procedures except those to “prevent the death” of a pregnant woman. National women’s groups and local residents are pounding the pavement to turn out the vote. There’s no question that women—already the majority of voters and clearly the losers if the law stands—hold the balance in this contest. If the ballot initiative fails and the law remains intact, it will immediately be challenged all the way to the Supreme Court, where it could be the long-sought vehicle the right wing has needed to overturn Roe v. Wade . Let’s hope South Dakota women vote as if the lives of their daughters and granddaughters depend on it, because that is indeed the reality of November 2006.

Source: TomPaine.com - What Women Want

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