25 February 2006

South Dakota vs. women

It has begun.

Yesterday, South Dakota passed a law that makes it a crime for a doctor to perform an abortion except where necessary to save a woman's life (and that latter caveat could open up a big can of subjective worms).

The law makes no exceptions for rape or incest.

Now think about this: Under this new law, if a young girl in South Dakota is raped by her drunken uncle and becomes pregnant as a result, she will be forced to carry that pregnancy to term.

Furthermore, the rapist could have the same parental rights as the mother.

And they call this "pro-life"?

[Read MSNBC's coverage of this story.]

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