South Dakota: Republican Lawmakers Kill Popular Anti-Abortion Law (Democracy in Action!)

Why do we have Republicans?

Seriously, what is the point?

LifeSiteNews:

Republican legislators in South Dakota have refused to consider a bill proposed by Gov. Kristi Noem which would have banned almost all abortions if a fetal heartbeat could be detected, a move the governor has called “unprecedented in the very worst way.”

Gov. Noem had introduced the legislation last month on the same day the 49th annual March for Life took place in Washington, D.C., along with a bill draft which would prohibit the distribution of abortion drugs through the mail. Early signs pointed to the future success of the bills, which together would ban nearly all abortions in the Mount Rushmore State.

However, in a surprise move last week, a Republican-led committee of the state’s House of Representatives refused to grant a hearing for the bill which would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected (or about six weeks gestation), effectively killing the proposed legislation.

Modeled after Texas’ life-saving Heartbeat Act, which prohibits all abortions in the Lone Star State after about six weeks gestation, South Dakota’s law would also have borrowed Texas’ unique enforcement mechanism which empowers private citizens to sue abortionists rather than utilizing criminal charges filed by state prosecutors.

America is the single most corrupt country on earth.

The fact that you relabel “bribery” as “campaign contributions” doesn’t mean that all of a sudden you are no longer a corrupt country. All of “our” right-wing politicians are bought off, and virtually none of them have any interest at all in doing any of the things they were elected to do.

This is the problem with democracy – it just doesn’t work for normal people, or anyone other than an elite minority of oppressors.

We should stop having democracy.