If this ban is defeated in South Dakota, it will be the anti-choice movement's most crushing blow since Roe v. Wade--because their entire message since then has been that they can change minds, and they've had damn close to 34 years to do it. If they can't even get a ban passed in one of the most conservative states in the country, I predict the demoralizing effect will be huge, potentially crippling.

Mike Rounds had no idea the favor he was doing pro-choicers when he signed that bill.

Cheers,

TH

I think Tom is on to something here. I also think that the longer this debate goes on, the more ground the anti-choicers lose. For one thing, they keep shifting their stance; we've heard them say it's wrong under any circumstances, no, it's wrong after x weeks, wrong if the woman was promiscuous, had consensual sex, or is unmarried, wrong if the pregnancy's not life-threatening...etc, etc. etc. Every time they shuffle their feet, the ground they're standing on gets a little more unstable.
Add to that the inherent hypocrisy of waving a "life is sacred" banner regarding abortion while supporting things like war and capital punishment, or rejecting proposals to raise taxes to fund programs to feed and educate already-born children, and the world gets a better glimpse at the true misogynist face hiding behind the moral mask a lot of these people wear.

Encouraging.