As expected, the South Dakota Senate has passed the new abortion ban bill (via Reuters), sending it to it's final stop - the governor's desk. At this point, conventional wisdom says Governor Michael Rounds will sign this in to law officially banning abortion in the state of South Dakota. Any doctor caught performing an abortion would be charged with a felony and could be sentenced to 5 years in prison in addition to $5,000 in fines.

For background on all of this, see my previous posts:

- South Dakota Abortion Ban Heads To Senate For Vote
- South Dakota Abortion Ban Looks Likely, Bill Moves To Senate...
- BREAKING: SOUTH DAKOTA HOUSE PASSES BAN ON ABORTION! WHAT SAY YOU SD SENATE?

And as usual, we've got the ridiculous "health care" comment made by some pro-death woman:

"We hope (Rounds) recognizes this for what it is: a political tool and not about the health and safety of the women of South Dakota," said Kate Looby of Planned Parenthood, which operates the sole clinic providing abortions in South Dakota.

To which I (lazily) continue to repost:

Anyway, incase anyone actually buys in to the excuse that abortions are "health care" as liberals and Democrats like to refer to it, let's agree that that is ridiculous. I just can't stand when I see Howard Dean or someone on a news program talk about women's health care to try to make abortion sound like a routine physical. "Reproductive rights" is bad enough, but "health care" is demonstrably false. Only about 6% (and I'm guess that's actually high) of abortions are for anything other than birth control:

Abortion Statistics - Decisions to Have an Abortion (U.S.)

* 25.5% of women deciding to have an abortion want to postpone childbearing.

* 21.3% of women cannot afford a baby.

* 14.1% of women have a relationship issue or their partner does not want a child.

* 12.2% of women are too young (their parents or others object to the pregnancy.)

* 10.8% of women feel a child will disrupt their education or career.

* 7.9% of women want no (more) children.

* 3.3% of women have an abortion due to a risk to fetal health.

* 2.8% of women have an abortion due to a risk to maternal health.

The reason I say that the 6% is probably high is because "risk" is a pretty broad term. That could encompass a lot of things. "Risk" operates on a scale, and these would obviously include all levels of risk.

Anyway, about 94% of abortions are then nothing more than birth control, right? Supposedly abortions are slightly down now, but the average was about 1,300,000 per year in the United States alone. What that means is that 1,222,000 children are killed in the United states every year out of convenience, not "health". And we didn't even have decades of intelligence saying these babies had weapons of mass destruction! Maybe the babies moved their WMDs to Syria too, long before we started doing surveillance. Otherwise, what is the excuse from liberals for attacking these innocent people?

"Health care"? I think not.

For further study, about a month ago I posted on the terminology bias in the media as it pertains to the abortion issue. Of course the exact numbers change by the day, considering it it based on articles indexed in Google and Yahoo! News search, but the trend always remains.

UPDATE:

Check out the Independent Conservative for a round-up related issues like some pro-life bills gaining strength in Georgia, and the possibility of forced black abortions in the Netherlands. This reminds me of the racist history of Planned Parenthood and it's founder Margaret Sanger's fondness of eugenics. Tie it in with the pseudo-forced abortions by UNFPA, the UN Population Fund who's goal it is to reduce the world's population and you have some scary things going on around us hiding behind cute names like "health care" and "family planning", when it's nothing but mass murder by those who worship Darwin above all.