South Dakota Shelves Bill Aimed at Defending Unborn

[kpete]

Source: New York Times

South Dakota Shelves Bill Aimed at Defending Unborn
By A. G. SULZBERGER
Published: February 16, 2011


A state bill to expand the definition of justifiable homicide in South Dakota to include killing someone in the defense of an unborn child was postponed indefinitely Wednesday after an uproar over whether the legislation would put abortion providers at greater risk.

The House speaker, Val Rausch, said that the legislation had been shelved, pending a decision on whether to allow a vote, amend the language or drop it entirely. A spokesman for Gov. Dennis Daugaard said, “Clearly the bill as it’s currently written is a very bad idea.”

The bill, approved by the House Judiciary Committee last week on a 9-to-3 party-line vote, establishes in part that “homicide is justifiable if committed by any person in the lawful defense of such person, or of his or her husband, wife, parent, child, master, mistress, or servant, or the unborn child of any such enumerated person.”

The phrasing caused concern and disbelief on both sides of the abortion debate, with activists in the abortion rights and anti-abortion movements calling the language poorly conceived at best, and perhaps an incitement to violence. The bill was cheered, though, by those anti-abortion activists who argue that the use of violence is justified to stop doctors from carrying out abortions.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/us/17dakota.html?_r=1&ref=politics

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Translated: The bill, if enacted, would not survive a court challenge.

[Borchkins]

2. Summer vacation

My summer vacation was going to be in the Black Hills of SD. If this is revived, I'll be staying closer to home.

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[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[VWolf]

4. Replace "shelves" with "shreads" and I'm happy n/t

[Judi Lynn]

5. Mind-numbing their Judiciary Committee approved this crap.

http://blogs.citypages.com.nyud.net:8090/blotter/Phil%20Jensen.jpg

Genius originator, sponsor of the bill, #1171, Phil Jensen.
Earlier story:
February 15, 2011 5:54 PM
South Dakota Justifiable Homicide Bill Under Fire as Critics Say It Invites Murder of Abortion Doctors
Posted by Alex Sundby 290 comments .

Updated at 7:45 p.m. ET

A bill scheduled for debate on the floor of the South Dakota House of Representatives Wednesday has been labeled by a group representing abortion clinics as "an invitation to murder abortion providers."

House Bill 1171 would expand the legal definition of justifiable homicide in the state. Critics said the measure legalizes the killing of abortion providers by saying a homicide is permissible if committed by a person "while resisting an attempt to harm" an unborn fetus.

"The bill introduced in South Dakota is an invitation to murder abortion providers," Vicki Saporta, president of the National Abortion Federation, the professional association of abortion providers, told CBS Radio News Tuesday. "It would actually legalize murder."

The bill's sponsor, state Rep. Phil Jensen, defended the proposed legislation by telling the Reuters news agency Tuesday that the bill would prevent prosecutors from trying to convict people who use lethal force to protect their pregnant family members from attackers.

More:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20032098-503544.html

[Tsiyu]

6. So when Republicans in South Dakota

refuse to provide adequate funding for pre-natal medical care, can they also be "justifiably homicided?"


Lack of adequate pre-natal care is a leading cause of death of the fetus. If Republicans in South Dakota deny pregnant women this care, they are causing the deaths of the unborn.

Can't have it both ways, misogynists...you either give a shit about fetuses or you don't.

Put your money where your mouth is and help women, you goons and cretins, rather than further trying to be Big Government over women's privates.