And so it begins…
From the BBC:
A US state legislature has approved a bill to ban most abortions, in a move aimed to force the US Supreme Court to reconsider its key ruling on the issue.
The South Dakota draft law - which needs approval by the governor, known to be against abortion - seeks jail for doctors who perform terminations.
Exceptions will be made if a woman’s life is at risk, but not for rape.
Got to be the first of many, I would have thought. Here’s what happens next: Planned Parenthood or NARAL pro-choice America or someone challenges the validity of this law at the State Supreme Court. No matter their decision, it will go to the federal circuit court of appeals, and probably to the Supreme Court. So the tax dollars of the good people of South Dakota will be spent funding a politically-motivated challenge to established law in a bid to close the ONE clinic that performs abortions in the entire state. I hope they’re happy with that.
It’s worse - it seems that private interests are raising a legal fund to defend this new law. This one is going to go all the way.