Mike Round One

Today, South Dakota's governor Mike Rounds signed into law a bill banning all abortions excepting those cases in which the life of the mother is in danger. It makes no exceptions for rape or incest - teenage girls would be forced to bear the children of their rapists and abusive fathers. Enforcement of the law will likely be postponed pending a hearing by the Supreme Court, but in the meantime, ten other states are considering similar bills (Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee and West Virginia).

Switch gears for a moment - every year, Morgan Quitno Press evaluates twenty-one factors in an effort to rank the fifty states by intelligence. Not surprisingly, the factors are educationally based (e.g. high school graduation rate, school attendance, class size, reading/writing proficiency, etc). Also not surprising - the rankings of the ten states considering the the above mentioned bills.

(source: Morgan Quitno Press)