Yes the law will be stopped immediately because of legal action by Planned Parenthood of South Dakota. All eyes have been on South Dakota since February 22, when the state Senate approved a bill to ban nearly all abortions. Governor Mike Rounds (R) has indicated that he will likely sign the bill into law.
Planned Parenthood plans to file a lawsuit soon after the bill becomes law to keep it from going into effect. The ban clearly violates Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 decision that found it unconstitutional for states to ban abortion. The ban's supporters are hoping the case will ultimately reach a newly formed Supreme Court, potentially prompting a majority of justices to overturn Roe.
Anti-choice forces in South Dakota are on a mission to make the state the most hostile to reproductive rights in the country. And sadly, as a recent state task force on abortion revealed, they are not too far from reaching that goal.
The story below (linked), which originally ran in Choice! Magazine on December 22, 2005, provides an eerily prophetic look at how South Dakota became the first state since 1992 (Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey) to adopt a direct challenge to Roe.
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