The American Taliban is on the March

[lizard]

I'm not a big proponent of abortion but I think women should have the right to decide. this is fucked:

The Gov. of South Dakota just signed into law a ban on all abortion, including those for cases of rape and incest. The only exception being in the case of a threat to the mother's life.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

South Dakota is stupid. Case closed.

 

[lizard]

 

[Necromunchkin]

It would seem people are preparing to test out the new version of the U.S. Supreme Court.

 

[lizard]

cricket ball assaults Bush in India

 

[Hell Mike]

I think two parents-to-be should have the right to choose
and rape victims and all of that of course

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

that picture is priceless lizard. and this law is fucking retarded

 

[cthulufhtagn]

this stupid country [/quimby]

 

[lizard]

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

this stupid country [/quimby]

so wait...

either it was great that Roe v Wade allowed the decision to be left in the hands of the states, or it wasn't

which is it?

 

[NAD]

Fucking rules.

Yeah, this dude sucks. I think Necro is dead on with the bigger scarier issue though.

I used to love the high school argument of anti-abortion even in rape cases. "Well Jesse Jackson was a rape baby!" Ignoring the issue of whether or not you find the Rev a complete and total fucktard aside, that's hardly the main thing to worry about in such a case. "She's my sister. She's my daughter. My sister. My daughter." etc.

 

[lizard]

you do have a point, gugs, and it does remain to be seen if the bill is constitutional because someone will surely challenge it...but it just smacks of "you'll do it our way and like it" and that's unamerican.

 

[unhinged]

so in some states abortion is illegal but in some states you can marry animals?

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

i forese a sudden increase in babies found in: toilets, dumpsters and trash cans

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

so in some states abortion is illegal but in some states you can marry animals?

Prior to 1973, it was 100% left up to the individual states, and what wound up happening was the bible belt and more conservative midwestern states were all outlawing abortion, which led to lots of young women (especially young women it seemed) traveling great distances or going to great and often risky lengths to have the procedure done. A lot of times women had "underground" i.e. very dangerous procedures done by backroom hacks too.

Roe v. Wade was supposed to establish some sort of guidelines for how this would work moving forward, and is probably one of THE landmark Supreme Court rulings of the past 40 years. South Dakota has now become the 1st state to challenge this since then (as far as I know), though the Supreme Court could still overrule this, I believe. Not entirely sure.

It's going to be interesting to see what, if any, precedence this establishes.

 

[Dark One]

Agreed that basically a complete ban is just ridiculous. I understand that cases of rape and incest can be hard to 100% and often end up he said, she said, but the ability to choose to have an abortion in those instances outweighs the difficulty of proving those cases.

 

[Lies and Perfidy]

Sometimes, this country hurts my brain.

 

[unhinged]

I think abortion may be still illegal in the south of ireland
not sure if you can get it done up here either, I remember quite a few girls taking the ferry over to england to have terminations

 

[Dead_Lioness]

South Dakota is stupid. Case closed.

A lot of states are stupid....
In fact, it makes me sad to see "america" the "free country"
bannign abortions like its a 3rd world country or something...
disgusting........

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

america! Land of the free..... provided it's purely politically correct, economically profitable, politically convenient and religiously appropriate.