An abortion ban?
Amidst the hub-bub on the "wardrobe malfunction" yesterday, evangelical outpost noted that the South Dakota legislature is working on banning abortion. The bill reads, in part:
Section 1. The Legislature finds that the State of South Dakota has a compelling and paramount interest in the preservation and protection of all human life within and subject to its jurisdiction and that the preservation and protection of human life applies to all human life, born or unborn.
Section 2. The Legislature finds that since neither constitutional law nor Supreme Court decision has resolved the question of the beginning of life, it is within the proper sphere of state legislative enactment to determine the question in light of the best scientific and medical evidence. The Legislature therefore finds that unborn human life begins when the ovum is fertilized by male sperm.
Will this last? I doubt it. It is refreshing to see conservatives actually having the guts to do something like this, though, rather than spending time wasting more money on the NEA.
February 3, 2004 09:03 AM