The President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Cecilia Fire Thunder, was incensed. A former nurse and healthcare giver she was very angry that a state body made up mostly of white males, would make such a stupid law against women.
"To me, it is now a question of sovereignty," she said to me last week. "I will personally establish a Planned Parenthood clinic on my own land which is within the boundaries of the Pine Ridge Reservation where the State of South Dakota has absolutely no jurisdiction."
Finally, a reaction. It would come from a place that was immune to jurisdictional laws of South Dakota. Good for her, too. I hope she does work out an arrangement with Planned Parenthood, and sets up a clinic on the reservation.
When Governor Mike Rounds signed HB 1215 into law it effectively banned all abortions in the state with the exception that it did allow saving the mother's life. There were, however, no exceptions for victims of rape or incest. His actions, and the comments of State Senators like Bill Napoli of Rapid City, SD, set of a maelstrom of protests within the state.
Napoli suggested that if it was a case of "simple rape," there should be no thoughts of ending a pregnancy. Letters by the hundreds appeared in local newspapers, mostly written by women, challenging Napoli's description of rape as "simple." He has yet to explain satisfactorily what he meant by "simple rape."
Of course, it would be men that would attach the word simple with the word rape, and then make a statement that in the case of simple rape a woman should not be allowed the option to abort the fetus.
Disgusting is the only word I can come up with. Women better get their shit together, or we'll see the repeal of the right to vote in the not so distant future. Here's my plan. Let's perform a simple vasectomy on those simple male politicians in South Dakota. Yeah, that's the ticket.
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