South Dakota, political trendsetter

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/22/national/22dakota.html?hp&ex=1140670800&en=5d2fac6cc68a6727&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Monica Davey writes for the N.Y. Times about South Dakota Republicans' efforts to pass "a bill that would outlaw nearly all abortions." If all goes according to their plan, the bill would be challenged in court, and go all the way to the Supreme Court, where the new Bush Justices could overturn Roe vs. Wade.

The strategy would be aided by the potential retirement of 85-year-old Justice John Paul Stevens sometime before the case makes it to the Supreme Court.

So we all have that to look forward to.