In a move that surprised many people who enjoy a good joke about masturbation, South Dakota has decided that their plan to ensure safe driving while employing puns about touching oneself all over until orgasm were ill-advised. No one knows how they even came up with the idea, but I assume some ingenious advertising… » 12/15/14 9:30pm 12/15/14 9:30pm

Another addition to your fall reading list: The autobiography that Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote before ultimately fictionalizing her life story for younger audiences will finally be published. » 8/21/14 4:30pm 8/21/14 4:30pm

We can all agree that anti-choice legislation is inherently sexist, but the racism used to justify South Dakota's sex selective abortion ban, which just passed the House, is something else. » 2/27/14 2:45pm 2/27/14 2:45pm

Bullshit legislation decreeing that women shouldn't have control over their own bodies and their own reproductive agency is having a good week, it seems. Both in America and overseas, lawmakers are keeping their noses to the patriarchal grindstone, hard at work attempting to severely limit women's access to safe and… » 2/12/14 7:00pm 2/12/14 7:00pm

Today, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals decided that South Dakota has the right to order doctors to tell women seeking abortions that they're likelier to kill themselves if they go through with the procedure, even though that's a blatant lie. » 7/25/12 1:10pm 7/25/12 1:10pm

We so often hear about the human "predator" known as the cougar, that we sometimes forget that there are actual animals that inspired the nickname for ladies who go a-huntin' for younger manfolk. But did you know that cougars of the big cat variety very nearly went extinct during the last century? Well, they did, but… » 6/14/12 10:00pm 6/14/12 10:00pm

Last week, a judge in Oklahoma permanently blocked the enforcement of a law that banned medicinal abortions (RU-486, or "the abortion pill") on the grounds that the law places undue burden on women seeking medical care. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed a nearly identical bill into law earlier this year. The… » 5/15/12 6:20pm 5/15/12 6:20pm

It looks like we have another thing to add to the list of horrifying things that can happen when you have a baby. Police have arrested a woman in Brookings, South Dakota for breaking into another woman's house and trying to breast feed her baby. The mother called police early Sunday morning after she discovered the… » 4/09/12 9:00pm 4/09/12 9:00pm

The South Dakota state legislature is considering a bill that would clearly define what is and is not a crime when it comes teen sexting, that ill-advised horny boobies-sending pictures to each other, which means that transcripts of South Dakota legislative debates are about to get hilarious. Think "scene in every… » 2/28/12 2:40pm 2/28/12 2:40pm

A fund set up to defend antiabortion bills in South Dakota against legal challenges is being increasingly bankrolled by out-of-state donors. This year, over half the money donated to the fund came from an Ohio business owner who says "my businesses belong to Jesus." We decided to learn a little more about him. » 9/27/11 3:40pm 9/27/11 3:40pm

We may have a draw this week in the latest battle for abortion rights. A federal court has overturned a lower court's decision, finding that South Dakota can mandate that women seeking abortions be told they have a relationship with their fetus. Yet, since the ruling also said doctors can't tell women abortion… » 9/06/11 6:30pm 9/06/11 6:30pm

Here's a rare spot of good news in the state-by-state abortion battle: A U.S. district court judge has temporarily blocked South Dakota's new abortion law, which would have gone into effect today with a 72-hour waiting period and a forced visit to a crisis pregnancy center. » 7/01/11 11:05am 7/01/11 11:05am

States like Indiana and Kansas are trying to block Planned Parenthood from providing health care low-income women simply because it also provides abortions. Meanwhile, the reality-based world reveals that while the abortion rate has gone down 8 percent between 2000 and 2008, it has risen nearly 18 percent among the… » 5/24/11 10:30am 5/24/11 10:30am

South Dakota's new 72-hour abortion wait is the longest nationwide, and alone in requiring a crisis pregnancy center visit. "I hope that women who are considering an abortion will use this three-day period to make good choices," the governor said. » 3/22/11 3:00pm 3/22/11 3:00pm

South Dakota may have dropped the bid to enable the murderers of abortion doctor, but its House and Senate have both passed a bill requiring a 72-hour wait for an abortion, which would be the longest in the nation. Most outrageously, it would require women to visit a crisis pregnancy center before undergoing a… » 3/03/11 11:16am 3/03/11 11:16am