Battle begins to overturn S. Dakota abortion law

[Pendragon_6]

Mar 24, 2006

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota

Abortion rights supporters planned to launch an attack on Friday on a new South Dakota abortion law designed as a direct challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion 33 years ago.

South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds, a Republican, signed the law, widely considered the most restrictive in the nation, about two weeks ago. The measure bans nearly all abortions, even in cases of incest and rape, and says that if a woman's life is in jeopardy, doctors must try to save the life of the fetus as well as the woman.

An abortion rights coalition, South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families, said it would lay out its strategy to take down the law in mid-morning news conferences in Sioux Falls and Rapid City.

Abortion opponents have been counting on a legal challenge to the law and hope that the case could eventually take the intensely divisive issue all the way back to the U.S. Supreme Court.



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AP via MyWay (http://reuters.myway.com/article/20060324/2006-03-24T123907Z_01_N23280960_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-RIGHTS-ABORTION-DC.html)

[DoctorDoom]

The attack was automatic. The baby-killers want no impediments to their profitable trafficking in infanticide. Follow the money.

[The_Elucidator]

An abortion rights coalition, South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families,

Healthy Families???? :question:

[Beowulf]

Yeah really, "healthy families?" How does killing the unborn make for a "healthy family?"

[DeclinetoState]

South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families is a pro-abortion organization?

Isn't that like some of the communist countries (like East Germany) calling themselves Democratic Republics (or any other kind of republics)?

[brilliantLiberal]

Abortion opponents have been counting on a legal challenge to the law and hope that the case could eventually take the intensely divisive issue all the way back to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The issue is in its proper venue- the state legislature. The federal government does not have the Constitutional authority to supercede the rights of the state lawmakers on this issue. If the constituents have a problem with the law, let them take the proper steps to remove the law and those who passed it. If the constituents do not have a problem with the law, then the law should stand.

There is no Constitutional right to abortion, which means by definition that it falls to the juridiction of the individual states.

[DeclinetoState]

There is no Constitutional right to abortion, which means by definition that it falls to the juridiction of the individual states.<!-- / message -->

The Supreme Court has said otherwise, using a variety of clauses, amendments, and twisted logic to come to that conclusion in Roe v. Wade and other cases.

[brilliantLiberal]

The Supreme Court has said otherwise, using a variety of clauses, amendments, and twisted logic to come to that conclusion in Roe v. Wade and other cases.
The Supreme Court is not the US Constitution, nor are they endowed by the Constitution to make amendments even if they feel such amendments would be consistent with original intent.

[Borgia]

The Supreme Court is not the US Constitution, nor are they endowed by the Constitution to make amendments even if they feel such amendments would be consistent with original intent.

I believe it is the Supreme Court's job to interpret the Constitution though, which they did in the Roe case. You may disagree with the interpretation but that is another story.

[Rhino]

Ain't it always.

[ConservativeYouthMovement]

As a resident of said state, it is on the ballot in november so if I plan to watch TV between now and then I will have to sit through ad after ad on abortion.

Fun.

Anyway, the indians on the pine ridge reservation are building their own planned parenthood, because apparently state law doesnt effect them because they are a 'country' within a country. (Even though they are totally dependant on welfare and money from the rest of us in the real country.)

Anyway, with all of the liberals especially around sioux falls it might become difficult to get it voted in.

I plan to vote for it though.