Republicans in South Dakota are continuing their war on women by attempting to pass legislation that would legalize the murder of abortion clinic doctors and providers. What next? Bring back keelhauling and burning at the state of women presumed to be witches? These so called Chri$tian Family Values Republicans had better be careful with all their overreach or the Coliseums will be brought back, replete with lions *triple sigh*
***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.
Jensen did not return calls to his home or his office requesting comment on the bill, which is cosponsored by 22 other state representatives and four state senators.
“The bill in South Dakota is an invitation to murder abortion providers,” says Vicki Saporta, the president of the National Abortion Federation, the professional association of abortion providers. Since 1993, eight doctors have been assassinated at the hands of anti-abortion extremists, and another 17 have been the victims of murder attempts. Some of the perpetrators of those crimes have tried to use the justifiable homicide defense at their trials. “This is not an abstract bill,” Saporta says. The measure could have major implications if a “misguided extremist invokes this ‘self-defense’ statute to justify the murder of a doctor, nurse or volunteer,” the South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families warned in a message to supporters last week.***
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/south-dakota-hb-1171-legalize-killing-abortion-providers
ReplyDeleteRepublicans in South Dakota are continuing their war on women by attempting to pass legislation that would legalize the murder of abortion clinic doctors and providers. What next? Bring back keelhauling and burning at the state of women presumed to be witches? These so called Chri$tian Family Values Republicans had better be careful with all their overreach or the Coliseums will be brought back, replete with lions *triple sigh*
***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.
Jensen did not return calls to his home or his office requesting comment on the bill, which is cosponsored by 22 other state representatives and four state senators.
“The bill in South Dakota is an invitation to murder abortion providers,” says Vicki Saporta, the president of the National Abortion Federation, the professional association of abortion providers. Since 1993, eight doctors have been assassinated at the hands of anti-abortion extremists, and another 17 have been the victims of murder attempts. Some of the perpetrators of those crimes have tried to use the justifiable homicide defense at their trials. “This is not an abstract bill,” Saporta says. The measure could have major implications if a “misguided extremist invokes this ‘self-defense’ statute to justify the murder of a doctor, nurse or volunteer,” the South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families warned in a message to supporters last week.***
Justifiable homicide??? Unbelievable!
Doctors should just leave that miserable state if women there don't care about reproductive rights and won't act to stop this nonsense.
ReplyDeleteI would add in women and anyone SANE as leaving that miserable state as well...
ReplyDeleteI know I certainly would leave.
ReplyDeleteI thank Ms. Jesus daily that I was not born in that state *smirk*
ReplyDeleteI won!!!
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ReplyDeleteObama and Durbin are *grand bargaining* away Social Security and Medicare. Traitorous bastards!