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03/07/2006:

"Governor of South Dakota signs abortion ban into law"

The governor of South Dakota signed into law on Monday a ban on nearly all abortions in the state, setting up a court fight aimed at challenging the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalised abortion in the United States.

The new law makes it a crime for doctors to perform an abortion unless the procedure is necessary to save a woman's life and makes no exception for cases of rape or incest. Doctors could get up to five years in prison for performing an illegal abortion.
independent.co.uk