Straight Rights Watch: South Dakota

The Straight Rights Watch is back!  Today, let's look to South Dakota:

South Dakota's governor said Thursday that he'll likely sign off on new abortion guidelines that would be some of the strictest in the country, requiring women to wait 72 hours before they could go through with the procedure and to submit to counseling about why they shouldn't. 

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But the 72-hour wait would be the longest in the nation, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.

That can't be right.  "Submit to counseling about why they shouldn't"?  They're going to make it a law to tell a woman that she shouldn't be doing this?  And forcing them to sit through that for an unprecedented three days?

Under the new guidelines, a woman would have to undergo counseling at one of several state-approved "pregnancy help centers," all of which seek to persuade women not to have abortions. No other state has such a requirement, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota. And only a doctor who has met personally with a woman and determined she's seeking an abortion voluntarily could schedule the procedures.

Hey, you there.  The abortion you've decided on?  You shouldn't have it.  Sure, if you really want it, you are technically legally allowed to have the procedure, but for the next three days we're going to tell you that you shouldn't have it done.  Just so we're clear, if you get this done, you're doing something you shouldn't do.  Oh, no, we're not passing judgment on you for doing something you shouldn't do by telling you for three days not to do it while you're in an emotional and potentially tumultuous time of your life.  Good heavens no.  Simply, we just want to make sure you know that what you want to have done is something you shouldn't do.  It's clear you haven't actually thought this procedure through, because if you had, why would you be seeking an abortion?  No one wants to have an abortion, yet here you are.  Had you thought this through, you'd know they shouldn't be done.  So let's just tap on the breaks and pick out baby names, alright?  Christian for a boy, and Mary for a girl?  How does that sound?

Daugaard said he believes women should receive more time and counseling before having an abortion.  

"I think these decisions are certainly very important decisions. A decision of this significance warrants that," the governor said.

Does the Governor believe women just wake up and say, "Hey, I'm going to have an abortion today!" and then skip to Planned Parenthood in their best sundress while whistling showtunes?  That going to the abortion clinic is at the beginning of the process?

Step one: Allow health-care providers in Wisconsin to not cover contraception.
Step two: Force women in South Dakota to sit through three days of "counseling" about them pursuing something they shouldn't do.
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The last step:  All sex not done between married heterosexuals solely in the name of procreation becomes sexcrime.