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Honestly, I don't think there's going to be much "fallout" from this law. It's going to get challenged the moment the govenor's pen touches paper, and the people of South Dakota are going to have to foot the bill for a long legal fiight that, frankly, they're most likely to lose. The far right in the SD legislature is obviously offering this bill up as a test case for the new makeup of the Federal Supreme Court, and it's going to get there. Along the way, every level of the judicial system is going to say that this law is unconstiutional on the grounds that violates the Roe decision, which is clearly one the governing decisions in this situation. Now Alito and Roberts are certainly conservative (I don't think that anyone from either side of the aisle would disagree with that), and they, along with Scalia and Thomas, may find the Roe decision distasteful, but they are not activist judges. That means that SCOTUS is not going to throw out the Roe decision completely under any circumstances, although they might signal that they are willing to hear smaller challenges to it. Really, the SD legislature is being pretty stupid by expecting the Court to overturn Roe completely. If they really wanted to advance their cause, they'd do it in incremental measures. This is a waste of time and money.
By the way, I'm pro-choice but not militantly.
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