District 4 House race heating up; Former Rep. Fred Deutsch calls out Rep. Dylan Jordan for voting to jail women for abortion

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From facebook, the District 4 House race is heating up as former State Representative Fred Deutsch called out several legislators, including his upcoming opponent Rep. Dylan Jordan, for voting to put women in jail – possibly for life – if they have an abortion:

“HB 1212: applied South Dakota’s homicide laws to unborn children, repealed existing law that explicitly protects women from criminal prosecution for abortion, and removed the current fetal homicide statute and replaced it with a system that would allow prosecutors to treat abortion as murder under general homicide law. Under this bill, women could have been charged with murder — potentially facing life in prison — for abortion.

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The four legislators who voted YES voted to criminalize women for abortion.  The nine legislators who voted NO voted not to criminalize women.  That’s it. That’s the vote.

How the votes break down:

VOTED YES — to criminalize women

Rep. Dylan Jordan
Rep. Brandei Schaefbauer
Rep. Josephine Garcia
Rep. Heather Baxter

VOTED NO — rejecting criminalization of women

Rep. Bobbi Andera
Rep. Brian Mulder
Rep. Logan Manhart
Rep. Taylor Rehfeldt
Rep. Nick Fosness
Rep. Leslie Heinemann
Rep. Jim Halverson
Rep. Tony Kayser
Rep. Eric Emery

Claiming this bill was about “abolishing abortion” is simply false.

You can follow that discussion here.

The bill was viewed as too extreme for nearly every single pro-life organization in South Dakota, as well as several right and hard-right conservative groups, and the Governor. Yet there were 4 legislators who sided with the out-of-state group who brought the measure. Three were sponsors; Rep. Dylan Jordan, Rep. Josephine Garcia, and Rep. Schaefbauer. One, Rep. Heather Baxter, voted for the bill to put women in jail, despite hearing the opposition of nearly everyone testifying on the measure.

I’m guessing this isn’t the last Rep. Jordan is going to hear about it from Fred. And Dylan may find himself at a disadvantage in the race. Because who wants to support a candidate who pledges to shoot down planes and votes to jail women for murder?

We seem to be getting beyond the spectrum of being liberal versus moderate versus conservative, into an arena where the views represented in the Republican Party consists of conservative, hard-right, and “need to have their head examined because they’re divorced from reality.”

Because if you’re voting to put women in jail for murder in this instance, you definitely need to have your head examined.

14 thoughts on “District 4 House race heating up; Former Rep. Fred Deutsch calls out Rep. Dylan Jordan for voting to jail women for abortion”

  1. How committed are Jordan, Schaefbauer, Garcia and Baxter? How bout the Prime Sponsor and the rest of the Sponsors? Randolph indicated that he did not want to make this punishment retroactive to abortions that have happened in the past………….If it’s murder as he claims, then it’s murder regardless of when it happened. If they were truly committed and principled they would form Office of Special Investigation (OSI) groups like the Nazi Military Tribunals that are still going back and finding the Nazi’s who committed atrocities during WW2. If they were truly following their biblical interpretations on justice and mercy, it doesn’t matter when the crime happened, justice must be served. It’s all for show though and we know this.

  2. This was a horrible bill. And I am completely pro-life. This bill would have caused women to lie to their health care provider about taking an abortion pill, for instance, and not knowing how to take care of your patient, because you don’t know the truth, can kill your patient.

    Women would have quit going to pregnancy crisis centers because admitting you had an abortion would have been a felony and now you will be turned into the police.

    This was a bad bill. And I am so happy for the discernment of the legislators who voted no on this bill.

  3. If we don’t prosecute these women then why do we prosecute drug users? In both instances there are ‘consumers’ and ‘suppliers’. Makes no sense

    1. In what way does a woman having an abortion, either spontaneously or intentionally, threaten the public safety writ large the way recreational drug use does? Driving while abortion? A little common sense goes a really, really long way.

        1. 5 seconds. 5 seconds was all it would have taken you to google and learn that a spontaneous abortion is another way to refer to a miscarriage. Stop being so damn lazy.

    1. Disagree. I read what Fred has to say and understand him to be credible. He has common sense. Dylan? The opposite.

  5. Wild times we live in when Fred Deutsch is undeniably the better candidate and voice of reason

  6. I can’t believe this is the same state where we were protecting a women’s medical privacy rights in referendums by a 55-45 margin a dozen years ago. Someone chased out all the RINOs and brought in the BFIs.

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