Press Room

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 1st, 2006

Contact: Marc Tuttle, Communications Director, (262) 796-1111, cell (262) 408-0506
or Peggy Hamill, State Director, (262) 796-1111, cell (414) 416-0489

Pro-Life Wisconsin Urges Families to Vacation in South Dakota

In reaction to a threatened boycott against the state of South Dakota, Pro-Life Wisconsin is urging families to consider sunny South Dakota as their summer vacation destination.

Last Friday, the South Dakota House of Representatives voted 50-18 to approve a comprehensive ban on abortion. In addition to banning abortion in the state of South Dakota, the bill reports legislative findings based on testimony from doctors and other expert witnesses that life begins at conception and that in order to protect the rights and health of mothers as well as to protect the rights and health of unborn children, abortion ought to prohibited.

Annie Laurie-Gaylor of the Women’s Medical Fund, Inc., a pro-abortion organization that pays for the abortion of the children of Wisconsin’s poor, recently told the AP that her organization is coordinating a boycott and urging supporters “to act immediately to let South Dakotans know that we will bypass South Dakota." To counter the proposed boycott, Pro-Life Wisconsin is asking families in Wisconsin to consider including South Dakota in their travel plans this summer.

“It’s important for Pro-life Wisconsinites to travel to South Dakota not just to show the state that we support this legislation, but so our supporters can see first hand a state full of citizens who respect life,” said Marc Tuttle, Communications Director of Pro-Life Wisconsin. “Besides, the absence of people from the Women’s Medical Fund and their cohorts will make South Dakota all the more delightful.”

“If anything, South Dakota’s abortion ban is going to improve South Dakota’s profile, not decrease it. Mt. Rushmore, the Badlands, the Black Hills and the other top tourist destinations in South Dakota will be seen as more family-friendly,” added Tuttle. “The South Dakota legislature sent an important message, ‘our state welcomes people – All people, born and preborn.’ What message could be better for tourism?”

Tuttle hopes Wisconsinites will hear of the threatened boycott by pro-abortion activists and decide to take a pilgrimage to South Dakota’s churches to pray for the preborn children of Wisconsin. “When we have groups like the Women’s Medical Fund, Inc., who are marketing free abortions to Wisconsin’s most vulnerable, we need all the prayer we can get.”
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