Pro-abortion groups are cobbling together a boycott of South Dakota, in response to the legislative ban on abortion recently enacted in that state.

The boycott idea originated with the Women’s Medical Fund of Madison, a Wisconsin-based abortion rights group, which threatened to call a national boycott of the state if the bill passed.

The bill, which passed, will become law on July 1 and is seen as a direct challenge to the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion. Under the legislation, abortions would be permitted only in limited circumstances to save the life of the mother. The law does not make an exception for cases of rape and incest.

The boycott is going forward with the support of the National Organization for Women and the Feminist Majority Foundation, said Annie Laurie Gaylor, the Women’s Medical Fund director.

“We want to support the women of South Dakota and send a message to other states that there is a peril to their livelihood if they take similar steps,” she said.

A Wisconsin Pro-Life group has responded by issuing a press release “encouraging families to consider ‘sunny South Dakota’ as a vacation spot. It states ‘the absence of people from the Women’s Medical Fund and their cohorts will make South Dakota all the more delightful.’ ”

I also enjoyed the response at the Beautiful Atrocities blog, part of which goes:

Dear South Dakota,

I’m outraged by your decision to dispose of the sacred right of abortion. I’m also shocked to see this handled by mere elected officials rather than imperial judicial fiat, & am therefore joining the boycott of your state.

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So this year we will not be visiting the Bison-tennial Dutch Oven Cook-off, the Fort Hays Chuckwagon Supper Show, Gulches of Fun Amusement Park, the Corn Palace Festival …

Etc.

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