Governor signs South Dakota abortion ban

For more information on this bill, please see my posts here from February15, and a more recent one here, and go to Relevant Radio to listen to Harold Cassidy, as well as to read the Task Force Report. The more you hear him talk about this Law, and how it came about, the more you will be able to counter what the pro-aborts try to tell people about it! Arm yourself with truth from the real sources.

This task force studied the issue well, and did a lot of hard work before the Law was created and passed.

God bless!


Governor signs South Dakota abortion ban
Mar. 06 (CWNews.com)

Mar. 06 (CWNews.com) - South Dakota's Governor Mike Rounds has signed a bill banning nearly all abortions in the state.

The new law-- the first statewide abortion ban enacted since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision-- is due to go into effect July 1. However, a legal challenge is inevitable, and opponents are likely to seek a court order postponing implementation of the law until the constitutional challenge is resolved.

Thus the South Dakota law sets the stage for the first direct challenge to Roe v. Wade, a case in which the US Supreme Court effectively overturned all state laws restricting abortion. The challenge would test the new balance of power on the Supreme Court, which now includes two Justices recently named by President George W. Bush.

The South Dakota legislation, based on new scientific evidence showing that human life begins at conception, was approved by solid majorities in both houses of the state legislature. A similar bill is now working its way through the Mississippi legislature.

Radical abortion supporters have evidently begun exacting some retribution for their loss in South Dakota. Leslee Unruh, a pro-life activist who lobbied intensively for the new legislation, reports that she has received threatening phone calls in the middle of the night, eggs have been splattered across her house, coathangers placed in her mailbox, and dead animals left at her husband's office. Unruh reports having received "a ton" of hate mail.

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