Steve Hickey, over at Voices Carry, discusses the recent award presented to Sarah Stoesz for working to defeat the 2006 and 2008 South Dakota measures to ban abortion.

I won’t steal too much of his fire, but you absolutely have to read his mocking description of how he imagines the ceremony must have proceeded.  Here’s just a taste:

Cecile Richards: . . . And this years prestigious Headless Bloody Baby Doll award goes to………. Sarah Stoesz!!!

Sarah Stoesz: (Runs to the stage, clutches the award – blood smears on her hands and arms, jumps a couple times in surprise and excitement) Oh! I… Me?… But… Really?… I’m… (takes the deep breath she prevents children from taking…) This… is such a surprise. I thought for sure the award would be given to South Dakota Right to Life…

Check it out for yourselves.

If you don’t understand the dig at South Dakota Right to Life, you might want to read this from Operation Rescue.  Basically, in 2006, the South Dakota legislature passed, and Governor Mike Rounds signed into law, a bill that banned abortions in all cases except when necessary to save the life of the mother.  In the 2006 mid-term elections, voters overturned the law by ballot initiative (55% to 45%) because the law did not make exceptions for rape and incest.

In 2008, the Vote Yes For Life group succeeded in adding a ballot initiative, known as Initiated Measure 11, that would amend the South Dakota Constitution to ban abortion.  Only, unlike the 2006 law, the amendment made exceptions for rape and incest.  Planned Parenthood and other pro-choice groups essentially outspent Yes For Life three to one, employing rather deceptive ads that scarcely mentioned abortion at all.  But further fouling up the effort was South Dakota Right to Life, which actually joined forces with Planned Parenthood by opposing the measure and working for its defeat.

Yes, South Dakota Right to Life actually sent out mailers urging voters to reject Measure 11.  Why?  Because, they said, “it fails to protect all life from conception to natural death.”  No kidding.  Talk about head-in-the-clouds idiocy.  Because, you know, that whole ask-for-the-universe-all-at-once approach has worked so fantastically for pro-lifers since 1973.  A certain definition of insanity, prevalent in AA meetings, comes to mind for some reason . . . .