South Dakota governor signs legislation banning most abortion
The new composition of the U.S. Supreme Court will already chew on its first abortion case with a challenge to a partial birth abortion ban coming before the court. South Dakota is set to test the Supreme Court’s willingness to stand by Roe v. Wade.
Gov. Mike Rounds signed legislation Monday banning nearly all abortions in South Dakota, setting up a court fight aimed at challenging the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.
The bill would make it a crime for doctors to perform an abortion unless the procedure was necessary to save the woman’s life. It would make no exception for cases of rape or incest.
Planned Parenthood, which operates the state’s only abortion clinic, in Sioux Falls, has pledged to challenge the measure in court.
Rounds issued a written statement saying he expects the law will be tied up in court for years and will not take effect unless the U.S. Supreme Court upholds it.
“In the history of the world, the true test of a civilization is how well people treat the most vulnerable and most helpless in their society. The sponsors and supporters of this bill believe that abortion is wrong because unborn children are the most vulnerable and most helpless persons in our society. I agree with them,” Rounds said in the statement.
Even with new conservative justices on the Supreme Court, I don’t hold my breath for a complete reversal of Roe v. Wade. I pray I’m wrong, but not hopeful. Liberal baby-killer advocates (pro-choice) like to scare people by claiming that overturning Roe v. Wade would automatically outlaw abortion nationwide. That’s simply not true. Roe v. Wade states that there are implicit rights to privacy in the U.S. Constitution that extend to the medical decision of a woman regarding whether or not to abort a fetus (kill her unborn baby). A reversal of this decision would simply allow states to regulate abortion. Some states, like South Dakota, would enact sweeping restrictions on abortion. Other states would likely impose NO regulations on abortion. If a woman could not obtain an abortion in her home state of South Dakota, Idaho, Utah, etc., she could still travel to an abortion-friendly state.
March 6th, 2006 at 10:45 pm
S.D. Governor Signs Abortion Ban Into Law
Gov. Mike Rounds signed legislation Monday banning nearly all abortions in South Dakota, setting up
March 7th, 2006 at 5:16 pm
The way to outlaw abortion is to recognize the personhood of the unborn. Once that happens, you can’t just out-and-out kill the child because he’s “inconvenient” or “would be disadvantaged or disabled.” But I doubt we’ll ever see that. The difference between the old “non-person” group (slaves) and the new is the group oppressing them.
See, Southerners were, before the War, remarkably polite (and mostly we still are). The feminazis, however, are some of the rudest, crudest people slithering around today. The former would argue with you till you nobly fought them and won; the latter are, well, shrill, nagging women who get in a lather when you suggest that they comb their hair.