Bloodless Coup

What is and what isn't about South Dakota

My recent blogging has not been about South Dakota. Then, as I got to thinking about it, I decided, yeah, it is about South Dakota.

Not about actual South Dakota, but lurking around the edges of what South Dakota symbolizes, what it means.

Echidne of the Snakes also has not written about South Dakota. But she has:

The disadvantage the pro-choice faction is laboring under is that very few people now remember the pre-Roe era personally. Very few people have personal experiences of someone bleeding to death in a hotel room, of women being kicked out of their homes for becoming pregnant, of the double-standards that let a pregnant woman be lectured at in a church while the man who got her pregnant sits smugly in the choir. All stories that I have been told by older relatives. Young women today have not heard such stories, on the whole, and they have Roe v. Wade to thank for it. But it is hard to be grateful for something you take for granted, hard to see how the world would change if Roe was no longer there to be taken for granted. Hard, but we still have to find a way to tell these stories, to make it clear what is at stake at least for the poorest women if states like South Dakota become the rule.