PIERRE, S.D., Feb. 26 (UPI) -- The South Dakota legislature is poised to pass a law that would ban virtually all abortions, the Boston Globe reported Thursday.
Accordingly, abortion opponents from several states are trying to use South Dakota as a national platform to challenge the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe vs. Wade, the newspaper said.
On Feb. 10, the state's House of Representatives voted 54 to 14 to outlaw all abortions except in cases where the life of the mother is at risk. The state Senate narrowly passed the bill Tuesday, 18 to 15, in a slightly different form, allowing abortions when a pregnancy poses a serious risk to a mother's health. The House agreed to that change Wednesday.
Gov. Mike Rounds hasn't said whether he'll sign the bill into law, but he has said the Roe decision was wrong and points to his record as a state senator of voting for "human life at all stages."
The legislation contains no exception for rape or incest.
