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ORIGINAL:   http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/south-dakota-hb-1171-legalize-killing-abortion-providers

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.

http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2011/Bill.aspx?File=HB1171HJU.htm


        FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to expand the definition of justifiable homicide to provide for the protection of certain unborn children.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
    Section 1. That § 22-16-34 be amended to read as follows:
    22-16-34. Homicide is justifiable if committed by any person while resisting any attempt to murder such person, or to harm the unborn child of such person in a manner and to a degree likely to result in the death of the unborn child, or to commit any felony upon him or her, or upon or in any dwelling house in which such person is.
    Section 2. That § 22-16-35 be amended to read as follows:
    22-16-35. 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, if there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a felony, or to do some great personal injury, and imminent danger of such design being

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...Sara Rosenbaum, a law professor at George Washington University who frequently testifies before Congress about abortion legislation, says the bill is legally dubious. "It takes my breath away," she says in an email to Mother Jones. "Constitutionally, a state cannot make it a crime to perform a constitutionally lawful act."...

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ORIGINAL: cuckoldmepls

No, you thought Arizona was nutts, while 80% of us think Arizona is only doing what the federal government should have been doing ever since the 1986 amnesty.

The only murderers here are the pro abortion politicians who allow this genocide to continue. By the way, it's pro abortion, not pro choice. That's just another way for them to deceive you into believing it's perfectly acceptable.

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while 80% of us think Arizona is only doing what the federal government should have been doing ever since the 1986 amnesty.

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ORIGINAL: kalikshama

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while 80% of us think Arizona is only doing what the federal government should have been doing ever since the 1986 amnesty.

Really? Please provide a link for your 80% statistic.

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

Isn't it amazing how the conservatives want government to stay out of people's affairs until its what sex you like to have sex with or whether a woman wants to end a pregnancy?

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ORIGINAL: KenDckey

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ORIGINAL:   http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/south-dakota-hb-1171-legalize-killing-abortion-providers

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.

http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2011/Bill.aspx?File=HB1171HJU.htm


        FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to expand the definition of justifiable homicide to provide for the protection of certain unborn children.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
   Section 1. That § 22-16-34 be amended to read as follows:
   22-16-34. Homicide is justifiable if committed by any person while resisting any attempt to murder such person, or to harm the unborn child of such person in a manner and to a degree likely to result in the death of the unborn child, or to commit any felony upon him or her, or upon or in any dwelling house in which such person is.
   Section 2. That § 22-16-35 be amended to read as follows:
   22-16-35. 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, if there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a felony, or to do some great personal injury, and imminent danger of such design being

This is a stretch   A big one

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The only murderers here are the pro abortion politicians who allow this genocide to continue.

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By the way, it's pro abortion, not pro choice.

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ORIGINAL: Vindictus

If anything is genocide, it's what would happen to the doctors if this bullshit got passed.

On the other hand, this would allow any given doctor who performs abortions to shoot all the politicians in the state, due to their obvious plan to kill them... So I can't say it's all bad.