Fox News is reporting that South Dakota’s senate passed a bill outlawing all abortions except for those where the mother’s life is endangered. At least as far as the article outlines the law, I am in full support of it.
Abortion, as you may know from some of the old articles (which will hopefully be relinked soon) on this site, is the unjustified taking of human life, and as such should be outlawed in all cases (including rape and incest cases). I do, however, support the distinction that abortion be allowed when the mother’s life is in danger, but only because the intent in such a case isn’t to kill the child but to save the mother’s life, and the child’s life is inadvertantly taken in that process. Such cases are, of course, extremely rare. Virtually every abortion done today is because of convienence and has nothing to do with the health of the mother, despite the ploy abortionists to make it into a doctor’s and woman’s private health concern.
At the very least, this law should help bring the discussion back into the public forum where pro-lifers will have the opportunity to be ignored by the press yet again because their arguments are too well thought out. But perhaps some may be convinced even yet.
