Yesterday, the South Dakota legislature passed a law that will bring the state back to pre-1973 limits on reproductive rights, banning all abortion except when a threat to a woman's health. That is, if the law is not struck down by the supreme court as it should be. Planned Parenthood, which operates the only abortion clinic in South Dakota, is already planning a lawsuit if Governor Michael Rounds doesn't veto the bill.

In reality, vis-a-vis state laws, getting an abortion has become more difficult in many "red" states such as Mississippi. Many states have made incremenetal changes curbing a woman's right to choose. Given our new supreme court justices, this step is clearly a challenge to the Supreme Court to reconsider Roe V. Wade. Could this be the beginning of the end? Irregardless of how you feel about abortion, we cannot move backwards. Even my passionately pro-life mother knows that we cannot set back the clock on women's rights.