Choice.

The South Dakota abortion ban was signed into law yesterday.

AP: S.D. Governor Signs Abortion Ban Into Law

The money quote-

The law, designed to raise a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, is scheduled to take effect July 1.

Amazing. They don't care who this ban impacts, they just want to win their ideological crusade.

To give you an idea of just far conservatives want to take this, Digby takes a look at a recent PBS NewsHour segment featuring SD State Senator Bill Napoli (Republican, natch). Here's the key section of the segment-

FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Napoli says most abortions are performed for what he calls "convenience." ... I asked him for a scenario in which an exception may be invoked.

BILL NAPOLI: A real-life description to me would be 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.

Let that sink in for just a minute.

Digby then unleashes his thoughts on this insanity-

I wonder if it would be ok if the woman wasn't religious but she was a virgin who had been brutally, savagely raped and "sodomized as bad as you can make it?" Or if she were a virgin and religious but the brutal savage sodomy wasn't "as bad" as it could have been?

Certainly, we know that if she wasn't a virgin, she was asking for it, so she should be punished with forced childbirth. No lazy "convenient" abortion for her, the little whore. It goes without saying that the victim who was saving it for her marriage is a good girl who didn't ask to be brutally raped and sodomized like the sluts who didn't hold out. But even that wouldn't be quite enough by itself. The woman must be sufficiently destroyed psychologically by the savage brutality that the forced childbirth would drive her to suicide (the presumed scenario in which this pregnancy could conceivably "threaten her life.")

Personally, I say if a non-religious girl is raped, but not brutally, she must keep that child!

Republicans are the party of life, ya know.