To: South Dakota State Senator William R. Napoli
Re: Abortion ban legislation
You seem to be a sincere representative - a rare enough thing - but you also seem, I'm afrad, woefully out of touch with the reality both of today, and of the yesteryear that you glamorize. The kind of "family values" that you invoke to justify your oppressive legislation never did exist for vast numbers of Americans - not even South Dakotans. They would seem, instead, to be a figment of your nostalgia for something you had, or that you perhaps think you had, and that you think existed in the neighborhoods around you. If it really was a reality, well aren't you lucky? You also give an example of events that would permit abortion, under your proposed legislation: A young virgin is raped, sodomized, and impregnated, and carrying the child to term would literally kill her (what from, exactly - a ye olde South Dakotan fall from patriarchal grace?). Well, aren't you a generous soul! Really, Bill, do ask around.