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...There was all kinds of outcry about a law that goes so far. ?Most polls show that between 70 and 80% of the public support access to safe and legal abortion in at least the case of rape and incest,? says Kate Looby, the state director of Planned Parenthood. Indeed, some abortion foes worried that the bill could do more harm than good, galvanizing abortion rights groups, alienating voters whose views are more mixed, and even prompting the Supreme Court to throw out the law, and fortify Roe in the process...
...safety is at risk, late-term abortions have always been controversial because at some point they sidle up too close to infanticide for comfort. Now the South Dakota lawmakers find themselves having to explain why they rejected what have become customary ?special circumstances? like exceptions in the case of rape or incest, that are favored even by the ?pro-life President? in the White House...
...what about cases of rape and incest, where there is overwhelming public support for allowing abortion as an option? Here the lawmakers admit that they carved out a little gray area. Hunt notes that the bill forbids doctors from prescribing any drug or doing any procedure on a pregnant woman ?with the specific intent? of ending a pregnancy. It also protects the right of women to use ? a contraceptive measure, drug or chemical, if it is administered prior to the time when a pregnancy could be determined through conventional medical testing...
...other words, a woman presenting herself to an emergency room immediately after a rape, Hunt says, would be able to use emergency contraception; the trick is that she has to do within the first few days after the assault, before any test can determine whether she was pregnant in the first place. The lawmakers concluded that it?s OK for a rape victim to have an abortion, so long as she doesn?t know for certain that she?s doing...
...have an exemption for all rape victims, including the ones who are too shattered to report an assault right away? Hunt calls it ?a fine line that we?re walking, but some of this is just to show that we?re being fair and reasonable. In cases where we cannot determine if there?s an unborn child or not, we?re trying to be sympathetic to a woman who alleges she?s been raped.? But the sympathy expires after about a week. ?Very honestly,? Hunt adds, ?We don?t want to have a lot of abortion clinics questioning a woman...