News: Spring Edition

AKA2D '91 · #1 03-03-2006, 06:00 PM

#2 03-06-2006, 05:54 PM

My question is how many times has he been a victim of rape or incest?

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PIERRE, S.D. - Gov. Mike Rounds signed legislation Monday banning nearly all abortions in South Dakota, setting up a court fight aimed at challenging the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.

The bill would make it a crime for doctors to perform an abortion unless the procedure was necessary to save the woman's life. It would make no exception for cases of rape or incest.

Planned Parenthood, which operates the state's only abortion clinic, in Sioux Falls, has pledged to challenge the measure.

Rounds issued a written statement saying he expects the law will be tied up in court for years and will not take effect unless the U.S. Supreme Court upholds it.

"In the history of the world, the true test of a civilization is how well people treat the most vulnerable and most helpless in their society. The sponsors and supporters of this bill believe that abortion is wrong because unborn children are the most vulnerable and most helpless persons in our society. I agree with them," Rounds said in the statement.

The governor declined all media requests for interviews Monday.

The Legislature passed the bill last month after supporters argued that the recent appointment of conservative justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito have made the U.S. Supreme Court more likely to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Abortion opponents already are offering money to help the state pay legal bills for the anticipated court challenge, Rounds has said. Lawmakers said an anonymous donor has pledged $1 million to defend the ban, and the Legislature set up a special account to accept donations for legal fees.

Under the new law, to go into effect July 1, doctors could get up to five years in prison for performing an illegal abortion.

Rounds noted that it was written to make sure existing restrictions would still be enforced during the legal battle. Current state law sets increasingly stringent restrictions on abortions as pregnancy progresses; after the 24th week, the procedure is allowed only to protect the woman's health and safety.

Kate Looby, state director of Planned Parenthood, said the organization has not yet decided whether to challenge the measure in court or to seek a statewide public vote in November. A referendum would either repeal the abortion ban or delay a court challenge to the legislation.

"Obviously, we're very disappointed that Governor Rounds has sided on the side of politics rather than on the side of the women of South Dakota to protect their health and safety," Looby said.

She said Planned Parenthood would continue providing services that include family planning, emergency contraception and safe and legal abortions.

About 800 abortions are performed each year in the state.

skeeliteful · #3 03-06-2006, 09:37 PM

Puckett dead at 44 after suffering stroke

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb

TonyB06 · #4 03-06-2006, 10:06 PM

^^^^This is truly sad news. May God rest his soul.

AKA2D '91 · #5 03-06-2006, 10:07 PM

Jermaine Jackson's Tell All?

Jermaine is on Larry King Live speaking out against this so called "tell all". (sigh)

AKA_Monet · #6 03-06-2006, 10:13 PM

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Originally posted by skeeliteful
Puckett dead at 44 after suffering stroke

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb

Wow!!!

44 years old is not that old and rather quite young...

He must have had unchecked hypertension or something...

That's sad... Prayers to his loved ones.

Obsession8 · #7 03-06-2006, 10:28 PM

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Originally posted by AKA2D '91
Jermaine Jackson's Tell All?

Jermaine is on Larry King Live speaking out against this so called "tell all". (sigh)

LAWD! Mikey drinkin' *JACK*?! Why am I having trouble wrapping my head around that?!

Don't know if I'd pay money for it if and when it's ever published, but it'd make for a juicy read, *that's* for sure.

rho4life · #8 03-07-2006, 04:18 PM

I will NOT be going to South Dakota any time soon.

Obsession8 · #9 03-07-2006, 04:24 PM

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Originally posted by rho4life
I will NOT be going to South Dakota any time soon.

Same here.

WenD08 · #10 03-07-2006, 05:47 PM

ditto on SD. as for the Jermainie Jackson story, i wonder if it's true. i googled and came up w/nothing. not that it would suprise me. i'm sure he could use some money...

Confucius · #11 03-07-2006, 06:09 PM

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Originally posted by rho4life
I will NOT be going to South Dakota any time soon.

Don't worry, most people can't point to South Dakota on a map

But seriously, it drives me up the wall when people make their opinion/religion into the law!! I am a strong Christian and my faith is not shaken but guess what...Only 2 and 1/2 of the 10 Commandments are LAWS!!! People need to quit.

We have the Separation of Church and State for a reason!

(Ok, I am done venting.....)

Confucius · #12 03-07-2006, 06:11 PM

Christopher Reeve's Widow Dies at Age 44 By JIM FITZGERALD, Associated Press Writer
Tue Mar 7, 11:36 AM ET

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Dana Reeve, who won worldwide admiration for her devotion to her "Superman" husband, Christopher Reeve, through his decade of near-total paralysis, has died of lung cancer at the age of 44.

Reeve, a singer-actress who gave up some of her own career to be one of the nation's best-known caregivers, died late Monday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Medical Center, said Kathy Lewis, president of the Christopher Reeve Foundation.

Reeve had succeeded her husband as chair of the foundation, which funded research into spinal-cord paralysis cures. She announced in August that, while she wasn't a smoker, she had been diagnosed with lung cancer.

Lewis visited Reeve in the hospital Friday and said Reeve was "tired but with her typical sense of humor and smile, always trying to make other people feel good, her characteristic personality."

"She was a woman with an incredible heart who really put herself out there to help people with disabilities and especially those who are caregivers — something she knew a lot about," Lewis said.

Four months ago, at a fundraising gala for the foundation, Reeve looked healthy in a long, formal gown and said she was responding well to treatment and her tumor was shrinking.

"I'm beating the odds and defying every statistic the doctors can throw at me," Reeve said then. "My prognosis looks better all the time."

Asked how she kept her spirits up, Reeve said she "had a great model."

"I was married to a man who never gave up," she said.

SKEEphistAKAte · #13 03-07-2006, 07:03 PM

^^ Their son is 15.

#14 03-07-2006, 07:24 PM

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Originally posted by Confucius
Don't worry, most people can't point to South Dakota on a map

But seriously, it drives me up the wall when people make their opinion/religion into the law!! I am a strong Christian and my faith is not shaken but guess what...Only 2 and 1/2 of the 10 Commandments are LAWS!!! People need to quit. We have the Separation of Church and State for a reason!

(Ok, I am done venting.....)

That's what I'm saying. If you don't support abortion then don't get one...and I won't even comment on the fact that he's unable to have one...but he shouldn't try to make it so that others can't do with their bodies as they please.

rho4life · #15 03-07-2006, 07:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Confucius
Don't worry, most people can't point to South Dakota on a map

But seriously, it drives me up the wall when people make their opinion/religion into the law!! I am a strong Christian and my faith is not shaken but guess what...Only 2 and 1/2 of the 10 Commandments are LAWS!!! People need to quit. We have the Separation of Church and State for a reason!

(Ok, I am done venting.....)

I am a FIRM believer in the separation of church and state. While I may never decide to have an abortion, I don't want someone else restricing my right to decide what to do with my body.