{"id":24797,"date":"2011-02-15T13:18:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T13:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/02\/15\/south-dakota-just-like-mississ\/"},"modified":"2011-02-15T13:18:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T13:18:11","slug":"south-dakota-just-like-mississ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/15\/south-dakota-just-like-mississ\/","title":{"rendered":"South Dakota: Just Like Mississippi but Up North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Dakota would make the killing of abortion providers legal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A law under consideration in South Dakota would expand the definition of &#8220;justifiable homicide&#8221; to include killings that are intended to prevent harm to a fetus&#8211;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&#8217;s GOP-dominated House of Representatives soon.<br \/>\n&#8220;The bill in South Dakota is an invitation to murder abortion providers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bill, sponsored by state Rep. Phil Jensen, a committed foe of abortion rights, alters the state&#8217;s legal definition of justifiable homicide by adding language stating that a homicide is permissible if committed by a person &#8220;while resisting an attempt to harm&#8221; that person&#8217;s unborn child or the unborn child of that person&#8217;s spouse, partner, parent, or child. If the bill passes, it could in theory allow a woman&#8217;s father, mother, son, daughter, or husband to kill anyone who tried to provide that woman an abortion&#8211;even if she wanted one. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fucking Christians.  <a href=\"http:\/\/m.motherjones.com\/politics\/2011\/02\/south-dakota-hb-1171-legalize-killing-abortion-providers\">Read more. <\/a> If you are a Christian and you don&#8217;t believe that abortion providers should be shot dead legally in South Dakota then say something about it, please. Your silence is exactly the same as your guilt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Dakota would make the killing of abortion providers legal. A law under consideration in South Dakota would expand the definition of &#8220;justifiable homicide&#8221; to include killings that are intended to prevent harm to a fetus&#8211;a move that could make it legal to kill doctors who perform abortions. The Republican-backed legislation, House Bill 1171, has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/15\/south-dakota-just-like-mississ\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">South Dakota: Just Like Mississippi but Up North<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6rX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}