South Dakota's Preganazi's Fear a Referendum Vote...

...and they're happy to have pro-choice tax-payer's as well as special interests fund their fight all the way to the Supreme Court. Isn't that exactly the kind of interference in state's-rights of which wingers have accused liberals?

And doesn't it figure that the Looney Right can make on one hand, an argument that the country is filled with forced pregnancy advocates while on the other BEHAVE as if they doubt their own words? Clearly, if after countless years of "preganazi" emotional brow-beating Americans have come to their point of view and can be trusted to vote with them on the issue, no?

Ah, no...

"The state legislature earlier this week passed a bill flat out banning abortion even in cases of rape and incest. The governor, Michael Rounds, while nominally neutral, is thought to be ready to sign it. Then, the legislation will be challenged in court. And it is here that the real political battle begins.

A campaign to push the legislation through the U.S. court system up to the Supreme Court where South Dakotans can lead the charge to overturn Roe v. Wade, will cost over $1 million. South Dakota doesn't have that kind of money. So Rounds is studying ways of accepting into the state treasury private funds with which to wage the battle in the name of the South Dakota citizenry. In short,the well-heeled opponents of abortion are going to hire the public state government to fight their battle.

But while South Dakotan legislators have portrayed their state's political attitude as singularly pro-life, many argue the citizenry, if given a chance to approve or disapprove the bill, would come out against a ban. Thelma Underburg, the Executive Director NARAL Pro-Choice South Dakota, argues that defeat of a recent bill in the state legislature calling for a referendum, in fact, shows that "despite the right to life people saying it is a pro-life state, they know . . . if it ever came to a vote of the people, the majority think that a safe and legal abortion is a right."