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Grex > Agora56 > #158: South Dakota challenges Roe v Wade | |
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richard
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South Dakota challenges Roe v Wade
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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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richard
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response 1 of 254:
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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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jep
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response 2 of 254:
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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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kingjon
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response 3 of 254:
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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?
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scholar
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response 4 of 254:
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Mar 7 17:03 UTC 2006 |
It might not make a difference in that, uh, a law would still be being
violated, but it sure as hell would make a difference in how much sympathy
people would have for the poor woman -- including judges, DAs, the press, the
general public, etc.
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