closed. so in your real life, you are still waiting on weekends and holidays, of course, but the state government refuses to acknowledge that you are doing so. it s like if you were sentenced to prison time, and when the warden went home at the end of the business day, the state would stop counting the time you re in prison against your sentence. not because you re not in prison after business hours, but because the warden isn t there to observe you being there. he is home. business day is over. again, that has passed both the house and the senate in south dakota. it was due to land on the governor s desk this week. so far the governor s office is not saying whether or not he ll sign it, but he does say he has been supportive of the concept of a longer waiting period. that s some of what is happening in the states where republicans are running things. federally, you re at least seeing a different message about republican governance. roll call newspaper writing this week about senate
so in your real life, you are still waiting on weekends and holidays, of course, but the state government refuses to acknowledge that you are doing so. it s like if you were sentenced to prison time, and when the warden went home at the end of the business day, the state would stop counting the time you re in prison against your sentence. not because you re not in prison after business hours, but because the warden isn t there to observe you being there. he is home. business day is over. again, that has passed both the house and the senate in south dakota. it was due to land on the governor s desk this week. so far the governor s office is not saying whether or not he ll sign it, but he does say he has been supportive of the concept of a longer waiting period. that s some of what is happening in the states where republicans are running things. federally, you re at least seeing a different message about republican governance. roll call newspaper writing this week about senate republican
now, the legislature in its wisdom has passed a measure to augment the waiting period. so the clock doesn t start ticking on the forced delay if the day in question is a weekend or a holiday. the whole justification for forcing women to wait is that women are too dumb to understand what an abortion is on their own, and they need to be forced by the state to sit and wait and think about it for 72 hours. but apparently all that state mandated sitting and thinking is banned on days when the bank is closed. so in your real life, you are still waiting on weekends and holidays, of course, but the state government refuses to acknowledge that you are doing so. it s like if you were sentenced to prison time, and when the warden went home at the end of the business day, the state would stop counting the time you re in prison against your sentence. not because you re not in prison after business hours, but because the warden isn t there to observe you being there. he is home. business day is over