KELOland: SD State Medical Association neutral on abortion amendment to constitution (Amendment G)

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According to an article posted on KELOland today, the South Dakota State Medical Association is abstaining from supporting or opposing Amendment G, which would re-legalize abortion in South Dakota by placing it in the State Constitution:

In a statement to KELOLAND News on Tuesday, Jen Tinguely, SDSMA’s president, said support for abortion is based on individual’s beliefs and the organization will not take a formal stance on Amendment G.

“The SDSMA maintains its longstanding policy that support or opposition to abortion is a matter for individuals to decide based on personal values or beliefs and therefore the association does not take a formal position on the proposed amendment,” Tinguely’s statement read.

Read the entire story here.

Thoughts?

20 thoughts on “KELOland: SD State Medical Association neutral on abortion amendment to constitution (Amendment G)”

  1. They are cowards without the ability to take a principled stand. Did they forget the Hippocratic oath…first do no harm? Does the killing of a pre born human being not involve “harm”?

    2. If the mother is at risk, doctors need the ability to make that call, not consult a lawyer for statutory interpretation.

      1. Avera runs the need for an abortion past their ethics committee. The doctors explain the situation, and the decision includes the people at the very top. Pastoral care gats involved. Then the OR staff is informed and the ones who don’t want to participate are excused. ( I don’t know if they get the day off, or they just don’t work on that particular case.)
        They have been doing this for years. If they can figure this out, everybody else can too.

        1. Nope. Must require government. Because apparently that’s what is conservative now.

          1. not necessarily
            all fifty states have brain death laws now, specifying the criteria required to terminate life support (and harvest organs.)
            The doctors don’t need to go before a judge..

          2. You are so disingenuous! Being a conservative does not mean that a person opposes any government action. It means that we believe that the government exists to protect our rights, and one of those is the right to life.

    1. I stubbed my toe last week and it made me think “paper ballots!” No. I dont want less accurate methods that have already been slowing the process in South Dakota. Also, nice link to a fake news org that had to declare bankruptcy due to the numerous defamation lawsuits it faced. You far right people are a joke.

    3. Good thing voting machines and the tabulators aren’t hooked up to the internet then.

      1. Lololol, of course they are hopping IPs. Nothing to see here, folks. Clearly these people are South Dakotans and not weirdo outsiders trying to influence our politics.

        1. or….it is just people using vpn’s because the government is getting more and more into our lives. Just wait until Repubs try to ban porn, contraceptives, and everything else they are afraid of. Every intelligent person will be using a vpn. Hopping IP’s? You sound like a person who is trying to act like they know what they are talking about.

          1. You jusy went through alengthy monlogue and said nothing of substance. I dont believe your story for a second, as aSouth Dakota is a petri dish for outside conservative loons. Our educational standards where written by Hillsdale freaking college. You sound like a person who is trying to deflect and act in bad faith. Ok, now you write a lemgthy monologue about posters and whatever dumbass influencer you saw advertising NordVPN.

  3. SDSMA got this right. It’s my understanding that doctors are forming their own groups to support/oppose the measure. My only hope is that the medical experts are free to express their personal beliefs by activity in these groups without fear of retaliation from their employers who may not agree with those beliefs. I’m thinking of pro-choice docs who work for religious clinics/hospitals, or anti-choice docs who work for secular organizations.

    2. This is pretty much the ONLY position they can take.
      They will have members on both sides of this issue who would be incensed it the SDSMA took a position on either side of this issue. If that happened, pass or fail, then they would be facing a mutiny in their ranks.

    1. Elon Musk is scum. I bet those messages to Gislaine Maxwell were really about Kung Fu classes.

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