S.D. Governor Signs Abortion Ban Into Law
by Pamela LeaveySouth Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signed legislation today banning nearly all abortions in South Dakota. In signing the bill, Rounds acknowledges this sets up a potential court fight to challenge Rov v. Wade, 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.
It’s a sad, sorry state of affairs when a man (an elected official) does not see that a teenage girl, raped by her father is among the “most vulnerable and most helpless persons in our society.” Who is going to be there to help this helpless child? Is her life worth less than that of an unborn child? It seems it is in South Dakota.
Via CNN, the text of the law is available here.
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This clearly violates previous Supreme Court rulings on abortion rights, and I don’t think they have the votes yet to outright overturn such a previous decision.
I wonder if this will even make it to the Supreme Court. If a lower court throws out the law for violating previous Supreme Court decisions, I wonder if the Supreme Court would even want to hear this.
How is an unborn fetus the most helpless and vulnerable PERSON in a society? They are not IN the society. Until birth, that most helpless and vulnerable potential person can only be protected by the woman in which it was formed.
It’s her body that she has to devote for 9 months
It’s her life that she has to dedicate to raising the child
It’s her psychological health that she has to determine will be better if she aborts or gives the child up for adoption.
If these people would spend more time on the metally ill, the elderly, marginally competent and poor, we might get to the point where we don’t hear “I wish I was never born”
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