No exception for rape or incest in the new SD abortion ban law.

Is that the vaunted conservative compassion we hear so much about? Forcing a minor raped by her family member to have the child? And please don't say that isn't likely, it's happned before, it'll happen again.

If these compassionate asshats were talking serious adoption reform to go along with their assault on abortion, I could at least discuss it. But minus that, this is nothing more than another sick, cynical self righteous morality play like the Terri Schiavo cluster fuck.

Also keep in mind that the rapist, family member or not, will have a valid claim on fucking parental rights. Or is it once the baby is born who cares what father figure they have in their life?

What about poor women? You force them to have unplanned children and then cut them off their assistance and make it that much more likely the kid will grow up in poverty.

But once it's born, not your problem, right? Is that it? I don't like abortion, I think it's sad and ugly. But it's a fact that needs to be dealt with, not swept under the rug and ignored by passing knee jerk feel good legislation for no other reason than because you can pass it. This does nothing to address the larger issues of single parent families, poverty and generational welfare. In fact, it perpetuates them.