Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others

The South Dakota State Senate has passed a law banning all abortion unless necessary to save the woman's life. However, the bill made no exception for the health of the woman, for incest or rape, or if the father of the fetus was "yucky". Governor Mike Rounds has said he will sign the bill.

I'm not the Machiavellian operative that I used to be, because I feel like this is very bad. A lot of Democratic strategists are quietly rooting for the measure because they feel that it will galvanize the base and swing legislative control to the Democrats. I, on the other hand, disagree. First of all, the Democratic party is incompetent, and if they were able to prove that President Bush used to buy heroin from Osama Bin Laden, the party would still lose a couple of seats in November. Second, if this law goes into effect, women are going to get hurt. Poor women, black women (although that's not much of a problem in South Dakota) and uneducated women are going to get hurt. Plus Planned Parenthood will be on every TV channel, and I can't stand them.

So, this will go all the way up to the Supreme Court, where it will come down to what kind of day Justice Kennedy is having when the argument is heard. There will be protests, there will be direct mail pieces, and there will be rhetoric... What happens? Scalia,Thomas,Alito, Roberts, and Kennedy decide there is no right to abortion, and about 28 states ban it. Then I have really no idea.