Most of the lawmakers are male, including the Governor. What gives them the right to legislate what a woman can do with her own body? Should we return to the dark ages when women were just seen as breeding stock? If a woman has a promising career or is studying her behind off to make something of herself, good for her. Should some rapist's lust make her leave school or work for several months, so she can carry his unwanted offspring? Shouldn't women have the choice of who they want to breed with?

Sure, a fetus is alive, but so are plants and animals, and we kill them for food. A fetus reacts on an instinctive level, like a plant or an animal. It is not a person, it's a living thing with some basic instincts. Before it's born, it's not a person, it's just a living bunch of cells that could grow into a person if the pregnancy goes well, and there's no abortion.

I do not like the idea of third term abortions, though. That's just cruel. Make up your mind if you want to have it or not before the last trimester.

The only way we can outlaw abortions would be to have people spayed or neutered, just like animals. Spay all rapists, so they can't breed. Why not do the same with child molesters, junkies, violent or abusive people, etc. while we're at it? Of course, Hitler was a firm believer in having undesirables "fixed" or killed so they couldn't breed. So unless you agree with Hitler, we can't go that route. Which means an intelligent successful woman who doesn't have the option of abortion could be forced to breed with any man through rape. Guys, how would you like your mother, sister, daughter, wife, fiancee or girlfriend forced to have a rapist's child? Ladies, would you want to be forced to breed with a rapist, and carry his child, putting your career or education on the sidelines until it was born?

Quite a few women who are raped are so traumatized, they commit suicide. Pregnancy causes hormonal changes which can lead to depression, increasing the chance of suicide. And post-partum depression is a well known side effect of pregnancy, also sometimes causing suicide. So maybe the mother's life is in danger, just not the way you think.

As for God's will, if you believe in God(s), you know they also gave humans free will. So the choice should be up to the woman, not the government.

As for rapists seeing their kids, or gaining custody of them, rape is a sex crime. Sex crime offenders have to be registered, and are not allowed to associate with children. So why give them an underage victim to molest in private? That's just crazy.

Criminal rights just go too far these days. Like if a burglar breaks into your house, trips over your kid's toy at the top of the stairs, and falls down and hurts himself he can sue you over it. There's an example of a bad law for you. The government doesn't always make good laws, so why let them decide what women can do with their wombs?

The only way I can see requiring women to carry unwabted children for a while is if it's not rape or incest, the father wants the child, and they can plant the fetus in a surrogate mother or artificial womb. That way she won't be forced to carry it for long, just until they can move it, hopefully within a week or two.

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I think that this is a step in the right direction as far as this issue goes. I think that it is wrong to have an abortion because of the fact the baby already have some of their sences in the time you are allowed to have an abortion. The baby is going to be a person when it is born so it should have those rights before it is born. I hope other states follow in South Dakota's footsteps.

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dude the key words in there is semi-decent environment, uncaring foster homes and orphanages, growing up and turing into rapists and murderers.


"God" is supposed to choose who lives or dies? well maybe he is choosing for all these aborted babies to die because they are satans spawn and by banning abortions you are going to let them take over. sorry i'll stop ranting, god doesn't exist anyway.

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