The Extreme Abortion Constitutional Amendment
The proposed South Dakota Abortion Constitutional Amendment would be one of the most extreme abortion laws in the nation. The Abortion Amendment would legalize painful, late-term abortion, all the way to the point of birth.
The Abortion Amendment is so extreme that it would also override our state’s existing common-sense, bi-partisan abortion policies. Just some of the existing common-sense laws that would be overridden by the Constitutional Amendment include:
• Parents’ rights to know when their minor daughter is pregnant and being pressured into an abortion: overridden.
• Protections for a mother from being forced to have an abortion against her will: overridden.
• Conscience protections so that doctors and nurses cannot be forced to participate in performing abortions against their will: overridden.
• Even basic health and safety requirements for abortionists to follow, including requirements that abortions be done by a physician and an inspected and clean facility: overridden.
The list of horrible consequences goes on. The bottom line is that this Constitutional Amendment is truly extreme and a grave threat to the life of unborn children and mothers in our state.
The Extreme Abortion Amendment explained:
Representative Jon Hansen explains the proposed abortion amendment.
Representative Jon Hansen compares the proposed abortion amendment to Roe v. Wade.
See what the sponsors of the abortion
amendment are doing to gather signatures:
Bait & Switch
Listen to South Dakota voters tell Life Defense Fund volunteers that they were given the abortion petition when they asked for the food tax!
Unattended Petition
Petition circulators are required to sign, under oath, that “each signer personally signed the petition in their presence” … pretty hard to do when the circulator isn’t even around!
Not handing out Attorney General’s Statement
South Dakota law requires that each petition circulator provide to each person who signs a petition, a form containing the title and explanation of the initiated amendment to the constitution as prepared by the Attorney General.
Misleading the Public
Attorney General Marty Jackley told the petition sponsors that “any suggestion that your proposed abortion amendment makes abortion legal only for the first trimester is contrary to the language of the proposed amendment and Interim Attorney General Vargo's ballot explanation.”
