The media must really despise how the internet has reduced their monopoly on power. When I was vainly searching for a media report on Hunter's Right to Life Bill, I found a post by the evangelical outpost. The legislature of South Dakota is directly challenging Roe v. Wade. In South Dakota House Bill 1191:

Section 1. The Legislature finds that the State of South Dakota has a compelling and paramount interest in the preservation and protection of all human life within and subject to its jurisdiction and that the preservation and protection of human life applies to all human life, born or unborn.

Section 2. The Legislature finds that since neither constitutional law nor Supreme Court decision has resolved the question of the beginning of life, it is within the proper sphere of state legislative enactment to determine the question in light of the best scientific and medical evidence. The Legislature therefore finds that unborn human life begins when the ovum is fertilized by male sperm.

Section 3. The Legislature finds that the guarantee of due process of law under the South Dakota Bill of Rights applies equally to born and unborn human life and that there is no other justification for the taking of a guiltless human life by the state or by any person within and subject to the jurisdiction of the state.

I take heart in this for many reasons. First, I am obviously thrilled to see some courageous pro-life legislatures who are not afraid of fighting for their beliefs. Second, my process of discovering this story shows how easily the internet can defeat the media's attempt to hide information. If they had actually covered Hunter's bill, I would have never discovered the South Dakota bill.

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