[The_Eaglet]

Thanks for posting this. This really isn't a challenge to Roe v. Wade as Roe v. Wade was technically binding only on the parties at suit.

Pray that South Dakota's right to defend the right to life will not be attacked by the Constitution-usurping left.

[r9etb]

First I've heard of this. Good for S.D.!!!

Of course, they'll undoubtedly be overturned by the USSC, but dang! Good for them!

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP - pro vida

[VaBthang4]

Wow!

This is awesome news....we'll see where it goes.

Praise God.

[OXENinFLA]

Daschel has to be going NUTS!

[HEY4QDEMS]

Good for SD. If I didn't hate the cold so much, I would consider moving there.

[3catsanadog]

Wooo - Hoooo!!!! Let the games begin!

[patton]

Wonder if I could get a job in SD?

[The_Eaglet]

Groups unfairly targeted-Campaign Finance Reform Thread - Day 62

[WhiteGuy]

10th Amendment Bump

[ZULU]

Is Little Tommy Daschole from South Dakota or North Dakota?

[k2blader]

Praise the Lord!

Hope and pray this moves on up.

[BlueNgold]

This has got to be a sign that lil Tommy is in huge trouble at home come Nov.

[Tribune7]

Great. But do us a real favor and vote out Daschle.

[inquest]

I'm very happy to see this. Hopefully, South Dakota will take note of the fact that courts can only strike down individual cases, not laws directly. So when one case is dismissed on appeal, the law yet remains on the books. Even if there isn't a single successful conviction under this law, SD should still overload the federal courts as much as they can until this constitutional issue is dealt with fairly and squarely.

[Cicero]

Rape is not the child's fault, and there is almost certainly less trauma involved if the mother bears the child and then has it adopted out if she understandably refuses to keep it.

As for life of the mother, that is only a consideration in very rare and exceptional cases. Ectopic pregnancies, for instance, where there is no chance whatever that the baby can be saved. But the problem is like any other. If you declare that the baby is a living human being, then it's like other cases where you have to balance one human life against another. Catholic moral theology declares that if it is unavoidable to kill the unborn child as a side-effect, for example, of doing necessary chemotherapy on a cancer that won't wait, then that's not an abortion, it's a tragic side-effect of a valid therapeutic procedure.

A few mothers have chosen to die rather than accept urgent medical procedures that would result in killing their babies, but terrible choice that should be left up to them.

Going back to the bill, I think it's brilliant. We need to challenge these tyrannical and murderous judges directly, in ever way possible. Under our constitution judges are no better than the other two branches of government. Judges have no armies and no police. They depend on the executive branch to enforce their decisions, and they depend on the legislative branch for their salaries and the funding to run their courts. They should never have been allowed to tyrannize over our free society as they have.

It's long past time to confront them. Judges only have whatever authority the people and the rest of government will allow them. If they abuse their authority, they deserve to lose it. We must have sweeping reform of the judiciary. It's the most pressing single problem in government today.

[gdani]

Bad idea.

If this bill passes into law we all know there will be a lawsuit. Following that, I'd say that there's a 95% chance that a court(s) will strike the law down using Roe v. Wade.

End result -- even more case law establishing the constitutional right to an abortion. In other words, this bill/law will backfire.

Perhaps a more prudent thing to do would be to wait until one or two of the abortion rights crowd retires from the U.S. Supreme Court then go forward.

[Coleus]

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[Salvation]

Did someone tell you that Tom Dashcle is deeply saddened.

[jwalsh07]

Wow, big kudos to the South Dakotans.