the people of South Dakota, not the politicians in Pierre, will be the ones to decide whether to restore Roe v. Wade as the law of South Dakota
This reminds that although abortion rights are the most important result of Roe v Wade, there are other rights that were abrogated when it was overturned. It’s hard to say all that was lost, and those generally won’t be recovered with these efforts.
i can’t wait the state to respect this the way they respected the voters’ wishes with marijuana legalization.
And minimum wage laws, and campaign finance laws, we show up to for the ballot measures, but not for the people in office.
Edit: or we’re perfectly happy voting for people that go against our voting interests. It’s horrible either way
I think the thing with marijuana is the amendment passed on a referendum and then was struck down. We’re minimum wage and campaign finance reform ballot initiatives?
I can’t remember the specifics well enough to state anything as fact, I’m pretty sure we had something on campaign finance that disappeared after voter approval, and I know we had a ballot initiative on minimum wage that they reworked after the fact into something better than many places, but not quite what was voted on. Marijuana felt like they straight manipulated rules and it disappeared with their reasoning being that it technically was more than one rule at once.
Even if my poor explanations aren’t great, I can state as a fact that our voter pool seems to not care at all that their elected officials don’t give two shits about their interests. I know plenty actually do, but our averages voter just looks for the R
One of the dumber parts of this is that, prior to Roe vs Wade being overturned, SD had an abortion ban on the ballot twice since (guessing here) 2006 and voters voted it down both times. Roe v Wade gets overturned and our elected officials immediately enact they’re own rules and now we have to fight for our rights back. I hate that our state still votes for Kristi and others like her, but hopefully we can get a little win bank this year.
What did they do with the bananas?
for scale, of course