| Monday, March 06, 2006 |
| The abortion ban-wagon |
South Dakota takes one giant step into the Victorian Era, as the governor signs a comprehensive abortion ban.
Prediction #1: men in South Dakota are gonna get turned down a lot more often...
Predietion #2: even with Scalito and Roberts on the court, if this goes to the SupCo, it's going down (no rape or incest exceptions -- I wonder what compassionate soul thought of that...?)
Prediction #3: the big lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood or the ACLU that will get this to the Supremes will involve either a rape victim or an incest victim, probably a minor or very young woman -- challenging the state's right to force her to bear her assailant's child (not to mention the implications for whether the attacker would have ... ugh ... parental rights... )
Meanwhile: Digby elicits, from a pro-ban South Dakota state senator, one Bill Napoli, the "sodomized version exception"
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Napoli says most abortions are performed for what he calls "convenience." He insists that exceptions can be made for rape or incest under the provision that protects the mother's life. I asked him for a scenario in which an exception may be invoked.
BILL NAPOLI: A real-life description to me would be a rape victim, brutally raped, savaged. The girl was a virgin. She was religious. She planned on saving her virginity until she was married. She was brutalized and raped, sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it, and is impregnated. I mean, that girl could be so messed up, physically and psychologically, that carrying that child could very well threaten her life. ... and a card carrying winger responds to Digby, but ignores that scenario in favor of might be called the "slutty poor lady" non-exception...
In the Kansas City Star, one writer makes it clear: don't think the religious right will stop at abortion. Next up: birth control (and apparently, sex for pleasure, too...) (HT to Digby there, too...)
...The Nation attacks the Democrats new "safe but rare" abortion mantra as useless in the face of an all-or-nothing right wing movement that wants to ban the pill, too ...
Next states not to have sex under any circumstances in: Mississippi and Tennessee. Just say no, ladies! After a while, the men in your state will change the law without you even asking...
Tags: Abortion, Politics, Supreme Court, Reproductive Rights, Religion |
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