South Dakota Governor BANS abortion

Update: Video and Picture Slideshow for this story.

Update 2: MSM coverage.

The good ol' guy went ahead and did it.

Catholic World News reports:

Mar. 06 (CWNews.com) - South Dakota's Governor Mike Rounds has signed a bill banning nearly all abortions in the state.

(the exceptions are cases of rape and incest)

The new law-- the first statewide abortion ban enacted since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision-- is due to go into effect July 1. However, a legal challenge is inevitable, and opponents are likely to seek a court order postponing implementation of the law until the constitutional challenge is resolved.

Thus the South Dakota law sets the stage for the first direct challenge to Roe v. Wade, a case in which the US Supreme Court effectively overturned all state laws restricting abortion. The challenge would test the new balance of power on the Supreme Court, which now includes two Justices recently named by President George W. Bush.

The South Dakota legislation, based on new scientific evidence showing that human life begins at conception, was approved by solid majorities in both houses of the state legislature.

(I wonder which scientific evidence they are referring to...)

A similar bill is now working its way through the Mississippi legislature. Radical abortion supporters have evidently begun exacting some retribution for their loss in South Dakota. Leslee Unruh, a pro-life activist who lobbied intensively for the new legislation, reports that she has received threatening phone calls in the middle of the night, eggs have been splattered across her house, coathangers placed in her mailbox, and dead animals left at her husband's office. Unruh reports having received "a ton" of hate mail.

(wow, way to keep it classy, Pro-Aborts.)

But of course, with every small victory comes another setback.