South Dakota Planned Parenthood Advocate

The Time Is Now

Do you live in District 5, 11, 14, 18, 22, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 32, or 35? (Find out your district here.)

 

If so we need your help right now! HB 1237 will be in the House Judiciary committee on Monday morning.

 

                 House Judiciary Members:

                                District 5 Representative Melissa Magstadt

                                District 11 Representative Christine Erickson

                                District 14 Representative Marc Feinstein

                                District 14 Representative Anne Hajek

                                District 18 Representative Mike Stevens

                                District 22 Representative Peggy Gibson

                                District 23 Representative Charles Hoffman

                                District 25 Representative Jon Hansen

                                District 27 Representative Kevin Killer

                                District 29 Representative Dean Wink

                                District 31 Representative Timothy Johns

                                District 32 Representative Brian Gosch

                                District 35 Representative Don Kopp

 

Please go email your representative RIGHT NOW and tell them that you and the people of South Dakota do not support this atrocious bill.

 

South Dakotans voted in 2006 and 2008. We must remind our legislature that South Dakotans want safe access and for women to make their own personal medical decisions.

 

If you don’t live in those districts, you can still help. Email your legislators to ask them to vote NO on HB 1237 if it gets to the floor of their chamber!

 

Want to do more to help?

 

You can also show that you stand against HB 1237 by signing our petition here!

 

We are all in this battle together and every email helps!

 

Email South Dakota Public Affairs Manager, Megan, to see how else you can help!

 

Thank you so much for your support and help.

HB 1237: Women Can't think on weekends according to SD legislators?

HB 1237 would make it so that weekends, federal holidays, and state holidays could not count towards the mandatory 72 hour wait period.

What are the sponsors of this bill trying to say? The theory on the original 72 hour wait period was that women needed these 72 hours to think about their decision.

So do they think that women don’t know how to think on the weekends and holidays?

This bill simply demonstrates that SD’s legislature is hostile to women and their personal medical decision making.

When will SD politicians stop trying to get involved in a woman’s personal medical decisions?

Take a stand now and sign our petition to show SD legislators that you will not stand for this cynical legislation.

HB 1237 is scheduled to be heard in the House Judiciary Committee on Monday February 11^th at 10:00AM.

The members of the House Judiciary committee can be found here.

Take a minute to email them and let them know that South Dakotans do not support this ridiculous bill.

Contact Your Legislators

Our legislators are back at work in Pierre and we need to make sure that they focus on what’s important this year rather than getting involved in a woman’s personal medical decisions.

They need to hear from you to know that!

Take a minute to email your legislators and let them know you want them to focus on what’s important during the 2013 legislative session. Education reform and balancing the budget should be their focus rather than getting involved in personal medical decisions.

Abortion is a complex, deeply personal decision that a woman makes in consultation with her doctor, her family and trusted loved ones and advisors based on her unique medical situation.

Our legislators should stay out of this decision.

Email your legislators now to let them know you want them to stay out of these decisions and focus on other important matters this year.

Thank you for all you do.

The Team Roe Times March Issue!

We are excited to present to you the third issue of The Team Roe Times in 2012, a joint project between Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and NARAL Pro Choice South Dakota!

Packed inside this fabulous issue is a book review of "Any Mother's Daughter" about the HPV vaccine, a summary of the South Dakota Legislature, the Blunt Amendment vote, the debut of "Women Vote 2012", an introduction to our new intern, AND SO MUCH MORE! Please enjoy and share widely.

Download The Team Roe Times Vol 2 Issue 3

A High-Five, a Shout-Out, or a Thank You

By: Cecile Richards, President Planned Parenthood Federation of America

  Last week, the Senate rejected the Blunt amendment, a measure that would have allowed any employer to deny women who work for them insurance coverage for any essential health benefit, including birth control, for any moral or religious reason. After weeks of debate and an enormous outcry from Planned Parenthood supporters nationwide, the message is clear: birth control is basic health care, and your medical decisions should be between you and your doctor.

This is a huge victory for women's health, and I’m pleased to say that Senator Johnson voted to defend access to affordable birth control. Please take a moment to thank Senator Johnson for voting to protect women’s health and ask them to keep up the fight.

U.S. Senate Defeats Blunt Amendment 51-48

In an important victory, the U.S. Senate stood up today for women’s health and basic health care by defeating an extreme proposal sponsored by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) that would have allowed any corporation or health plan to refuse to cover any health care service they object to, such as cancer screenings, maternity care, HIV/AIDS treatments and others.  

Rally for Birth Control!

Thank you to everyone who braved the snow in support of birth control for ALL women this afternoon in Sioux Falls! Our supporters are the BEST!

Congress is expected to vote as soon as next week on a measure introduced by Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) that would not only overturn the birth control coverage benefit, it would undermine the entire notion of health insurance.

In short, the Blunt proposal says that employers and insurance companies do not have to provide coverage for ANY essential health service that they object to on the basis of personal religious belief or moral convictions.

That means employers and insurance companies can not only deny access to birth control, they can deny access to any essential health care service, including maternity care, HIV/AIDS treatment, mammograms, cancer screenings: you name it.

The Blunt proposal is designed to eviscerate critical protections included in the Affordable Care Act and to completely undermine a fundamental principle of the health care law—that everyone in this country deserves a basic standard of health insurance coverage.  

~ Carmen, Planned Parenthood Advocate

NOT "Just a Few Dollars"

Politicians like Rick Santorum say that this birth control issue isn't a big deal because it "costs just few dollars." REALITY CHECK! Enter your age and contraceptive of choice and find out how much you could expect to pay for birth control through the average age of menopause.

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, most health insurance plans will cover women’s preventive services, including contraception, without charging a co-pay or deductible. 

Unfortunately, this fight continues in Congress. One bill, the Rubio-Manchin bill, would allow any business or corporation, on the basis of personal religious belief or moral conviction, to take away birth control coverage from their employees. Another bill, sponsored by Senator Blunt (R-MO), would drastically undermine women’s health and allow any employer or health plan to refuse to cover any health care service they object to on religious or moral grounds.

Planned Parenthood will continue to remain vigilant in protecting women’s access to health care at the state and federal levels.

The Team Roe Times February Issue!

We are excited to present to you the second issue of The Team Roe Times in 2012, a joint project between Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and NARAL Pro Choice South Dakota!

 

Packed inside this fabulous issue is a book review of one of the most interesting books I’ve read on adoption, “The Baby Thief”, updates on the South Dakota Legislature, the birth control employer refusal, and two new choice words AND SO MUCH MORE! Please enjoy and share widely.

Download The Team Roe Times Vol 2 Issue 2

They’re BAAAAAAACCCCCKKKKKKKK!

Yesterday was the day we’d all been waiting for, and the SD State Legislature did not disappoint. Introduced by Representatives Hunt, Brunner, Cronin, Greenfield, Haggar, Hansen (Jon), Hubbel, Jensen, Kloucek, Miller, Nelson (Stace), Olson (Betty), Sly, Stricherz, Van Gerpen, and Wick and Senators Kraus, Brown, Heineman, Hunhoff (Jean), Krebs, and Schlekeway is a bill very, very similar to 2011’s HB 1217:

An act to revise certain provisions pertaining to the decision of a pregnant mother considering termination of her relationship with her child by an abortion, to establish certain procedures to insure that such decisions are voluntary, uncoerced, and informed, and to revise certain causes of action for professional negligence relating to performance of an abortion.

You can read the entire bill here. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2012/Bill.aspx?File=HB1254P.htm