South Dakota Quickly Passing Bill to Challenge Roe V. Wade..

Maybe the Texas Legislature could do something similar.

South Dakota's Senate will send a bill back to the State House which will ban practically all abortions in the state. The bill makes the performance of an abortion a felony carrying up to a 5-year prison term. This bill is certain to find a challenge to the Supreme Court, which recently agreed to hear the case Carhart v. Nebraska, which concerns partial birth abortions. this represents, however, a greater opportunity, and truly the first in many years to directly challenge Roe.

Read the whole thing.

In Indiana, however, the tenor was quite different, showing what can happen when abortion bills wind up in committee. The original bill would have required abortionists to inform women that life begins at conception and that fetuses feel pain and a second bill would have shut down most abortion mills due to new building codes. The gutted bill now requires doctors to offer the alternative of adoption, offer ultrasounds, and tell women about potential risks. Not bad, Planned Parenthood rarely offers ultrasounds. Slow and steady, but still progress.

UPDATE: The South Dakota bill has been passed and is now the standing law in the state.