| Grex > Agora56 > #158: South Dakota challenges Roe v Wade |
| South Dakota challenges Roe v Wade | 
Mar 7 16:43 UTC 2006 |
(AP) The governor of South Dakota signed into law yesterday a ban on nearly all abortions in the state, setting up a court fight aimed at challenging the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States. The new law makes it a crime for doctors to perform an abortion unless the procedure is necessary to save a woman's life. It makes no exception for cases of rape or incest. Under the measure doctors could get up to five years in prison for performing an illegal abortion. Planned Parenthood immediately pledged to challenge the measure. The Legislature passed the bill last month after supporters argued that the recent appointment of conservative justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito have made the U.S. Supreme Court more likely to overturn Roe v Wade.
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Mar 7 16:44 UTC 2006 |
You had to know this was coming. It is part of the GOP master plan. Roe will get overturned and abortion will become illegal in a lot of this country sadly. ./ ./
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Mar 7 16:58 UTC 2006 |
South Dakota knows very well they're entering a court battle, and they expect it to go to the Supreme Court. Hopefully it'll take a few years, and there'll be another conservative justice to help overturn Roe vs. Wade. I am not at all sure, right now, which way the Supreme Court would decide, if they were facing the issue next month.
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Mar 7 17:00 UTC 2006 |
Why is "makes no exception for rape or incest" even mentioned? Who the father of a baby is makes no difference in infanticide cases; why should it matter before birth?