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4 "MUST READS"


1 - Corrections to misinformation from opponents

2 - Initiated Measure 11 is South Dakota Led and Inspired

3 - How our opponents are misleading voters

4 - Why Post Endorsements for Initiated Measure 11?

ITEMS OF INTEREST


Read the Trigger Bill Memo

Endorsements from Prominent Americans

Read Initiated Measure 11
[LARGER PRINT AVAILABLE HERE]

Read the Taskforce Report

LINKS


VoteYesForLife.com Blog

www.alivesd.com

THERE IS NO PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD IN SIOUX FALLS WITH THEIR OUT-OF-STATE ABORTION DOCTORS.

Planned Parenthood and its offshoot “Healthy Families” are attempting to mislead the voters of South Dakota.

They claim that the carefully drafted Abortion Bill that will appear on the November ballot will interfere with the physician-patient relationship. This is a false claim that voters should see through.

FIRST, this Bill prohibits abortions used as birth control. Those abortions are only done at Planned Parenthood’s facility in Sioux Falls where 98% of all abortions in South Dakota are performed.

THOSE ABORTIONS ARE PERFORMED ONLY BY ABORTION DOCTORS FROM OUT OF STATE.

There is no physician-patient relationship. The out of state abortion doctors are flown into our state one day a week and flown back to their home state later that same day. The only time these out of state physicians ever see our South Dakota women is in the procedure room, and only for five to nine minutes.

THESE OUT OF STATE DOCTORS NEVER SEE THE WOMEN BEFORE THE OPERATION OF AFTER.

In fact, the women pay for the procedure and sign a consent form without ever seeing a doctor. The romanticized concept that there is some kind of physician-patient relationship between the physician and the patient is total myth.

Abortion doctors from another state fly into our state to perform abortions without ever seeing the woman before she consents to the abortion. Obviously, none of these abortions are performed for health reasons because the surgery is scheduled by non-medical, untrained, low-level employees.

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WE POST ENDORSEMENTS FROM PEOPLE OF CHARACTER WITH GREAT PRIDE

The November Initiative was started by South Dakota residents, for South Dakota residents to advance South Dakota values.

The pro-abortionists who import New York City values to our state, are attempting to distort these facts by criticizing the fact that prominent out of state pro-life people of influence and character have endorsed what the people of South Dakota have done. These people of stature have reviewed the South Dakota Statute and have found it is well crafted and that it constitutes solid law. The people of South Dakota post their endorsements of our work with great pride.

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My name is Bill Connor.   My story entitled, “I WAS AN EXCEPTION”, appeared in many newspapers and other publications throughout South Dakota in the last Vote-Yes-For-Life campaign.  It was my hope that by telling my story of my mother’s rape would personalize the issue with a name and face that some might recognize.  You see, I was conceived in rape and my life is my precious gift.  Without life, there is no story, no love, children, friends, family or precious memories.  Today in the business of abortion, rape is simply a legal matter, that current law, and public opinion, deems the most extreme response as acceptable.  Thankfully, my Grandpa’s Catholic faith did not find this acceptable, and provided my mother the support she needed at our most vulnerable moment in time.

Unfortunately, we don’t live in a perfect world.   My mother was very young and made some bad choices, and my childhood was far from normal.  Her abusive relationships made neglect, abuse and poverty routine indignities that seemed normal to me as a kid.  Only as an adult, did I come to recognize how vulnerable children are to the ways of the world. Thank God that He inspired my Grandpa, some foster families, teachers and coaches to light another path for me to stay in school, excel in sports and inherit a new beginning to serve Him.  I am sure that many reading this article were not born at the perfect time in the perfect situation, with perfect parents who were able to meet every material need.  But like the living weed sprouting from the crack in the sidewalk, we can bloom where we’re planted.  

In a perfect world, with perfect people, we wouldn’t need a government.  However, to maintain a safe and functional society there is obviously a need to govern, and to be governed.  Our political system, imperfect as it is, is the best method we’ve devised to manage America’s governmental responsibilities.  It is this process, the politics of big money and self interest, that has corrupted the debate, confused the uninformed, and has obfuscated the truth to justify a modern political agenda.  Government needs to be “governed” too, and it is “we the people’s” responsibility to define government’s role, no matter the what the issue may be at the time. 

I want the people of South Dakota to know that I am unequivocally pro-life no matter how bad the circumstances.  Last year, the Yes campaign efforts to save all unborn life was defeated by Planned Parenthoods argument that the bill, previously enacted by the South Dakota legislature, was too “extreme” because it did not allow for the exception of rape and incest.  Even though these pregnancies are a very small percentage of the total number of abortions, this was the basis for their opposition.  Imagine, if you will, telling the 1500 passengers on-board the Titanic ocean liner that since the ship isn’t equipped with enough life boats for everyone, no one can board the “Yes for Life” boats!  

I recently learned that the Yes-For-Life organization is supporting a new bill that clearly allows for the rarest of exceptions.  And, of course, I immediately said YES.  Why, you ask, since I was the product of a rape, can I support this bill?  Because, this will allow virtually every passenger on board the “ship of life” to live.  And, not surprisingly, Planned Parenthood again stands in opposition.  This is real life politics, requiring the inspired to rise and be heard.  So don’t be confused, nor discouraged, this debate is contentious and often without reason, but silence is no longer an option.  I have no political agenda, and being self-employed sometimes can cause financial consequences for taking a stand.  But, like most Americans, we stand, and have stood, for the sanctity and dignity of human life, everywhere in the world. 

Today, my desire to live a full and abundant life is again threatened, not by abortion, but by cancer.  And again, I am considering every option available to save my life.  The voyage is precious, and much too short no matter how long each of us lives.  I desperately urge everyone who has read my story in the past to let your friends know that Bill Connor from Dell Rapids, is 100% behind this current Vote-Yes-For-Life initiative.  And when I meet the Lord and he asks me the big question, “What did you do for the least of these my brethren?”  I want to be able to tell him that I too stood tall for the most pressing issue of our time – the killing of God’s Holy image by the modern holocaust known as abortion.   

If so inspired, please contact everyone you know, talk about this to your friends and share my story.  I am confident that if we all do something, we will all be rewarded in time, God’s time.

He Made A Change, Bill Connor