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Lapinporokoira

PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:04 am


So it seems South Dakota has a bill looking to add the killing of an Abortion Doctor under "Justified Homicide".
So much for pro-LIFE.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/?p=1655

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A law under consideration in South Dakota would expand the definition of “justifiable homicide” to include killings that are intended to prevent harm to a fetus—a move that could make it legal to kill doctors who perform abortions. The Republican-backed legislation, House Bill 1171, has passed out of committee on a nine-to-three party-line vote, and is expected to face a floor vote in the state’s GOP-dominated House of Representatives soon.

The bill, sponsored by state Rep. Phil Jensen, a committed foe of abortion rights, alters the state’s legal definition of justifiable homicide by adding language stating that a homicide is permissible if committed by a person “while resisting an attempt to harm” that person’s unborn child or the unborn child of that person’s spouse, partner, parent, or child. If the bill passes, it could in theory allow a woman’s father, mother, son, daughter, or husband to kill anyone who tried to provide that woman an abortion—even if she wanted one.
PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:19 pm


This is the exact reason that I've started to develop plans for a state-launching catapult. Let's just oust South Dakota from the union and be done with it.

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Calixti

PostPosted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 7:26 pm


PostPosted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 2:23 pm




It makes me glad I live in the UK where we have a country wide law and where Abortion is not treated quite like the monster it seems in America.

Lapinporokoira


Calixti

PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:01 am


Lapinporokoira


It makes me glad I live in the UK where we have a country wide law and where Abortion is not treated quite like the monster it seems in America.

It's kind of messed up. I've heard that it's less bad in more liberal areas, but since my family came back to the states we've lived exclusively in the south and midwest, which skew conservative to say the least. I've learnt to not ever talk politics with anyone unless I know them pretty well. Especially after an incident where I was asked 'well you're pro-choice, but surely you don't mean you would ever get an abortion?' (though not that exact phrasing obviously) and my response amounted to 'in a heartbeat.' That association kind of ended on bad terms. :/

I am very envious of the attitude towards abortion in the UK and wish the US was more like it!
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