New Abortion Law Starts The Debate Again

A new law that has been passed by the South Dakota Congress and signed by Governor Mike Rounds; this new law forbids ALL abortions, PERIOD.

A majority of America opposes Roe V. Wade from being overturned, and than why does a state make a law that will be brought up directly against the landmark case?!?! They feel that Bush has put people on the bench that are more to their liking. With Sandra Day O'Connor off the bench, the key swing vote in many cases, the justices have a good chance of overturning it and this new law is taking advantage of that.

The following is from an article by Time which goes in depth on the issue of the new law in South Dakota.

"What about cases of rape and incest, where there is overwhelming public support for allowing abortion as an option? Here the lawmakers admit that they carved out a little gray area. Hunt notes that the bill forbids doctors from prescribing any drug or doing any procedure on a pregnant woman “with the specific intent” of ending a pregnancy. It also protects the right of women to use “ a contraceptive measure, drug or chemical, if it is administered prior to the time when a pregnancy could be determined through conventional medical testing…”

In other words, a woman presenting herself to an emergency room immediately after a rape, Hunt says, would be able to use emergency contraception; the trick is that she has to do within the first few days after the assault, before any test can determine whether she was pregnant in the first place. The lawmakers concluded that it’s OK for a rape victim to have an abortion, so long as she doesn’t know for certain that she’s doing it."