Gordon Howie record on Life
- Founding board member of the South Dakota Family Policy Council, supporting efforts to keep Planned Parenthood out of South Dakota and stop abortion.
- Serves as President of the Board of Care Net Pregnancy Resource Center in Rapid City.
Pro Life Legislative Record
Bills Sponsored
- 2006 HB 1198 http://legis.sd.gov/sessions/2006/mem.htm define the applicable standard of care in regard to screening of risk factors for all abortions except in the case of a medical emergency.
- 2009 SB 92 http://legis.sd.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=92&Session=2009 require the physical presence of any physician scheduled to perform an abortion at the site of the abortion procedure on the day prior to the abortion procedure.
- 2010 SB 137 http://legis.sd.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=137&Session=2010 nullify certain federal health care laws within the state of South Dakota. Opposed the implementation of taxpayer funded abortions.
Bills Co-Sponsored
- 2005 HB 1166 http://legis.sd.gov/sessions/2005/mem.htm establish certain legislative findings pertaining to the health and rights of women, to revise the physician disclosure requirements to be made to a woman contemplating submitting to an abortion, and to provide for certain causes of action for professional negligence if an abortion is performed without informed consent.
- 2005 HB 1233 http://legis.sd.gov/sessions/2005/mem.htm An Act to establish a task force to study abortion and to provide for its composition, scope, and administration.
- 2005 HB 1249 http://legis.sd.gov/sessions/2005/mem.htm prohibit the performance of abortions, except to save the life of the mother, and to provide a penalty therefor and to provide for a delayed effective date.
- 2005 HB 1255 http://legis.sd.gov/sessions/2005/mem.htm prohibit discrimination against health care providers, institutions, and payers that decline to perform certain health care services.
- 2005 SB 193 http://legis.sd.gov/sessions/2005/mem.htm revise certain provisions regarding the performance of abortions on unemancipated minors and those found to be incompetent.
- 2005 SB 203 http://legis.sd.gov/sessions/2005/mem.htm prohibit the performance of abortions, except to save the life of the mother, and to provide a penalty therefor and to provide for a delayed effective date.
- 2007 HB 1293 http://legis.sd.gov/sessions/2007/mem.htm refer to a vote of the people a bill to regulate the performance of certain abortions, to reinstate the prohibition against certain acts causing the termination of the life of an unborn human being, and to prescribe a penalty therefor.
- 2007 HB 1296 http://legis.sd.gov/sessions/2007/mem.htm require abortion facilities to offer sonograms to pregnant women under certain circumstances.
- 2008 HB 1193 http://legis.sd.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=1193&Session=2008 require abortion facilities to offer sonograms to pregnant women under certain circumstances.
- 2008 SB 88 http://legis.sd.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=88&Session=2008 require abortion facilities to offer sonograms to pregnant women under certain circumstances.
Gordon has been an outspoken leader for life both in and out of the political arena. There has never been a pro-life, pro-family bill he has not supported. His leadership and commitment to life and traditional family values is unwavering.
Paid for by Gordon Howie for Senate
