South Dakota sucks

This is not, of course, news. And I'm sorry to say that because I'm playing single mama this week, I haven't time to work up a lather on the fact that the governor signed the no-abortions-you-heinous-sluts law over thataway. But luckily other people have. A couple you might have overlooked: Bioethics Forum (apprently they lack permalinks; scroll down to Hilde Lindemann's post, "To Be a Mother," which is awesome), and a horrifyingly revealing video over at Susie Bright's place:

A real life [exception] would be, to me, a rape victim. Brutally raped. Savaged. The girl was a virgin. She was religious. She planned on saving her virginity until she was married. She was brutalized and raped, sodomized, as bad as you can possibly make it, and is impregnated. I mean, that girl could be so messed up, physically and psychologically, that carrying that child could very well threaten her life.
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When I was growing up, here in the wild west, if a young man got a girl pregnant out of wedlock, they got married. And the whole darn neighborhood was involved in that wedding. I mean, you just didn't allow that sort of thing to happen, you know, they wanted that child to be brought up, in a home with two parents, you know, that whole story. And I happen to believe that can happen again.

Welcome to the brave new world, where if you're not a religious virgin, you better be prepared to marry your rapist and raise that baby in a home with two parents.