Are The Stakes High Enough Yet?

If the South Dakota Senate gets its way, a young girl raped by a family member that becomes pregnant will be forced to carry that baby to term.

Amendments were offered to South Dakota's abortion ban bill to keep abortion legal in cases of rape or incest, but they all failed.

"The momentum for a change in the national policy on abortion is going to come in the not-too-distant future," said Rep. Roger W. Hunt, a Republican who sponsored the bill. To his delight, abortion opponents succeeded in defeating all amendments designed to mitigate the ban, including exceptions in the case of rape or incest or the health of the woman. Hunt said that such "special circumstances" would have diluted the bill and its impact on the national scene.

The appeal of this bill will most likely go all the way to the Supreme Court.

At that point, the new Bush-appointed justices will go to work on depriving women all over this country of their right to choose, even when their own life is in danger.

Way to think it through, America...
- posted by Brian @ 9:25 AM