Gov. Noem appeared on both CBS and ABC Sunday, June 26, with the message that South Dakota will strictly enforce the trigger law that imposes a near-absolute ban on abortions.
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Gov. Noem appeared on both CBS and ABC Sunday, June 26, with the message that South Dakota will strictly enforce the trigger law that imposes a near-absolute ban on abortions.
She added that her office has launched a new website (Life.sd.gov) that will provide pregnant women with vital information concerning pregnancy, parenting, financial assistance and adoption. She offered the same message in the June 27 edition of The Brookings Register. The creation of the website to assist pregnant women is certainly good messaging and one that both pro-life and pro-choice groups will support. While the South Dakota law that denies a pregnant women any choice to continue or to terminate a pregnancy is strongly opposed by pro-choice groups, these same groups have always supported the broad sharing of vital information so a pregnant woman might make an informed decision.
I reviewed the Life.sd.gov site and observed that the Financial Assistance insert included a number of federal public assistance programs that Gov. Noem and other Republican leaders are labeling the socialist agenda of the radical left.
Medicaid is a vital program for low income and working near poor families but Gov. Noem opposes its expansion in South Dakota.
Childcare assistance is equally vital but our congressional delegation opposes the continuation of the expanded child tax credit and federal funded preschool programs.
Provisions to expand SNAP, which feeds our low-income families, were opposed by Gov. Noem when she served in the U.S. House of Representatives. Rewarding work opportunities are important in raising a family but we the people had to resort to the initiative to win an increase in the South Dakota minimum wage because the Republican-dominated Legislature refused to act. Further, our GOP congressional delegation opposes federal tuition support for community college programs intended to prepare our youth for rewarding work.
Messaging is easy work. Constructive action to support a quality of life for all children is the heavy lifting.
