Anti-abortion bill passes (South Dakota) Senate committee

From Staff Reports
February 17, 2006, 10:59 am

A bill to ban nearly all abortion in South Dakota passed 5-1 in the Senate State Affairs Committee this morning.

The bill, which says a state task force found that life begins at conception, is an attempt to force the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that is the foundation for legal abortion in the United States.

Supporters of the proposed ban, which has passed the House, told the panel it’s time to look at that decision again.

“This is now 2006. Thirty-three years have gone by,’’ Republican Rep. Roger Hunt of Brandon said. “We know about DNA. We know about the fact that the child in a mother’s womb basically has a separate identity."

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Hat Tip to Darla M. for the update