Theron McChesney is claiming I said in a comment to the SD Progressive blog that there is no exception for rape in Referred Law 6.
That's not what I said. I said there were no "broader" exceptions (i.e. one that would make the bill meaningless. (Public school grads may want to look up the definition of the word "broader").
Since my comments were not posted to the Progressive blog in there entirety, I'm including them here so they can be taken in context, rather than misconstrued:
Section 3 isn't something that legislators "changed their tune" on; it was in the bill from the start. They didn't go back and stick it in there as the Left alleges. It was intentionally placed in the bill for a reason.
The abortion ban doesn't contain any unreasonable exceptions (i.e. ones you could drive a truck through, or ones that don't make any sense).
Why would a woman who's been sexually assaulted wait weeks to report that she's been raped? She needs medical care right away, not to mention counseling. And the perpetrator needs to be brought to justice; the longer she waits, the more evidence is lost.
It makes no sense that a woman would need more than a few days to report a rape.
Someone who is committing incest also needs to be brought to justice. Are we going to let the child sexual abuser just get rid of the evidence of his crime (and revictimize the child) with a convenient abortion
Section 3 of HB 1215 is a common sense provision that allows the woman who feels she needs EC to have access to it, while preventing any frivolous use of a broader rape exception. It also helps ensure that sex criminals are brought to justice.
Why does the pro-abortion crowd want to let rapists and child sexual abusers get away with their crimes, just to preserve abortion on demand?
My response to todays subsequent post which attempts to misconstrue what I said is as follows:
By the way I don't work for the VoteYesForLife.com folks. I just believe in what they're doing and try to help out where I can.
Why didn’t you post my entire comment so folks could take everything I said in context?
If pro-abortion folks aren't arguing that Section 3 wasn't in the bill from the beginning, why are they trying to make it sound like an afterthought, or something that pro-lifers "came up with" to respond to charges that the bill is "too extreme?" The implication can be nothing that Section 3 is some "rabbit out of the hat" that pro-lifers came up, and that it wasn't deliberately included.
The difference between conventional "birth control" and emergency contraceptives is that conventional birth control is something you use before or during intercourse, whereas EC is something which is used after intercourse. It's disingenuous to lump them together.
No one is saying Referred Law 6 allows you to have an abortion in the case of rape or incest. If you'll read again what I said instead of trying to misconstrue it, I said provides a common sense provision which allows recourse to a woman who has been raped to use emergency contraception within a few days of a rape. Why would a raped woman want to wait more than a few days to report a violent crime like rape anyway???
What the bill does not allow is some kind of broad "exception" that you could drive a truck through and essentially get an abortion on demand, simply by saying "I was raped" long after any evidence of the alleged crime is long gone. You would most likely see reported rapes go up considerably, but most would remain "unsolved" due to lack of evidence.
If pro-abortion folks are really interested in helping women who have been raped, they would be urging rape victims to report the crime immediately so they can (a) get the medical attention they need and (b) begin the investigation to bring the rapist to justice, instead of propagating some sort of lackadaisical attitude about rape which essentially conveys the attitude that rape isn't an urgent, serious matter which warrants immediate attention. By demanding access to abortion beyond any reasonable timeframe in which a rape victim would reasonably report the crime, they reveal that the true intent isn't some feigned concern for rape victims, but simply an excuse they hope will convince good people to vote against the bill and keep abortion on demand.
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