Women seeking abortions in South Dakota may have to face already tough laws made even tougher. No dedicated clinics have operated there since 1994, and Planned Parenthood is only allowed to fly in a single representative when essential. If South Dakota House Republicans have their way with House Bill 1171, things will become deathly severe. As law, 1171 would place abortion doctors in the line of fire, making it a justifiable murder to slay them if they threaten the health of an unborn fetus. People take out huge payday cash advances to see abortion doctors. This could really change a lot of things for several people. Post resource – South Dakota bill could justify killing abortion doctors by MoneyBlogNewz.
South Dakota doctors face sensible death issues
With a 9 to 3 party line vote, House Bill 1171 made it out of committee. It is sponsored by long time anti-abortion activist and South Dakota state Rep. Phil Jensen. He says that "consistency" might be brought to South Dakota's criminal code with the bill that would allow prosecutors to charge for murder crimes when unborn fetus is killed.
The murder of pregnant women would be included in these crimes although House Bill 1171 doesn't directly consider this. By changing the meaning of sensible homicide, making it acceptable to slay so long as the act of eliminating is performed in order to protect a fetus, Jensen is suggesting that even if the woman wanted an abortion, any person who aided her in obtaining abortion services could end up in the cross hairs.
’This is not an abstract bill’ was used in debate
Mother Jones got National Abortion Federation's Vicki Saporta's opinion on the matter. She said that Rep. Jensen's House Bill 1171 is "an invitation to murder abortion providers.". It gives extremists the necessary fetal-defense statute to escape punishment for murder. Giving a fetus personhood is what the bill is about according to Kristin Aschenbrenner of the South Dakota Advocacy Network for Women.
House Bill 1171 may not be abstract, however it may be legally dubious, says law Prof. Sara Rosenbaum of George WA University.
"It takes my breath away," Rosenbaum said via e-mail. "Constitutionally, a state cannot make it a crime to perform a constitutionally lawful act."
Entrance guidance needed with House Bill 1217
House Bill 1171 has House Bill 1217 attached to it requiring that women go through anti-abortion guidance at the Crisis Pregnancy Center, or CPC. A 2006 investigation found that information was misleading most of the time in CPCs like this.
Citations
Mother Jones
motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/south-dakota-hb-1171-legalize-killing-abortion-providers?page=2
South Dakota House Bill
legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2011/Bill.aspx?File=HB1171HJU.htm
An interesting question posed to anti-abortion demonstrators
youtube.com/watch?v=iD97OVJ4PNw
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