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My anger is ... unbelievable.
South Dakota has one - repeat one - location where women can obtain abortions. To get an abortion, one must:
1) Speak to the doctor at the clinic to get a full idea of what is involved, then wait 72 hours to consider your choice. This is difficult enough as they can't get a local doctor. The current provider flys in on a weekly basis, only for the day that the procedure is performed, making it hard enough to get the required information first. Note that they don't allow patients to speak just to a nurse, despite the fact that a nurse with the appropriate training would be completely able to give the information in an proper manner.
2) Then attend a counselling at a crisis pregnancy center, also known as an anti-abortion center or a pro-life clinic.
Then and only then may the woman go to the clinic in Sioux Falls and get the abortion.
And the problem? None of the crisis pregnancy centers in South Dakota will give the counselling.
It's horribly sneaky. The legislation purpoted to make women give due and appropriate thought to their choice and to make sure they were given all the pro-life options available to them, in the hope that those who weren't entirely certain that they wanted an abortion would decide instead to have the baby.
Instead, it's given the pro-life clinics the ability to completely block the abortions, without the legislation actually doing that.
The article about it is here.
1) Speak to the doctor at the clinic to get a full idea of what is involved, then wait 72 hours to consider your choice. This is difficult enough as they can't get a local doctor. The current provider flys in on a weekly basis, only for the day that the procedure is performed, making it hard enough to get the required information first. Note that they don't allow patients to speak just to a nurse, despite the fact that a nurse with the appropriate training would be completely able to give the information in an proper manner.
2) Then attend a counselling at a crisis pregnancy center, also known as an anti-abortion center or a pro-life clinic.
Then and only then may the woman go to the clinic in Sioux Falls and get the abortion.
And the problem? None of the crisis pregnancy centers in South Dakota will give the counselling.
It's horribly sneaky. The legislation purpoted to make women give due and appropriate thought to their choice and to make sure they were given all the pro-life options available to them, in the hope that those who weren't entirely certain that they wanted an abortion would decide instead to have the baby.
Instead, it's given the pro-life clinics the ability to completely block the abortions, without the legislation actually doing that.
The article about it is here.
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The following states have one clinic each:
Arkansas
Mississippi
North Dakota
South Dakota
Wyoming
And the requirements are so onerous!
I kept my own sanity a couple of years ago by sending encouraging postcards to one clinic in each state, thanking them for giving women a choice. It was heartbreaking to find so many states with only one - and I think that was only two states then. That it's five now makes my heart sink further.