South Dakota Abortion Bill

Court Upholds South Dakota Mother-Fetus Relationship Law

AP | By KRISTI EATON | Posted 11.02.2011

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- South Dakota can require doctors to tell women who seek abortions that they have an "existing relationship" with their fetus that...

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Planned Parenthood Scores Victory In South Dakota

AP | DIRK LAMMERS | Posted 08.30.2011

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Saying it would humiliate and degrade women, a federal judge on Thursday afternoon granted Planned Parenthood's preliminary ...

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PHOTOS: State-Level Assaults On Abortion Rights

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 08.17.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Republicans took charge of 25 state legislatures and 29 governors' offices in the 2010 elections, promising to focus on the sputtering e...

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Anti-Abortion Bills Advance In Statehouses Nationwide

AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Dozens of bills are advancing through statehouses nationwide that would put an array of new obstacles – legal, financial and ps...

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South Dakota Abortion Bill Requiring 3-Day Wait For Abortion Signed Into Law

AP | CHET BROKAW | Posted 05.25.2011

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PIERRE, S.D. — Women who want an abortion in South Dakota will face the longest waiting period in the nation – three days – and have...

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Group Behind Bills Seeking To Legalize Killing Abortion Providers Revealed

Mother Jones | Nick Baumann & Daniel Schulman | Posted 05.25.2011

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First, it was South Dakota. Then Nebraska and Iowa. The similarly worded bills, which have quietly cropped up recently in state legislatures, share a ...

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Anti-Abortion Georgia Lawmakers Propose Laws That Would Criminalize Miscarriages

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Are lawmakers from the "women are chattel" set having some sort of nation-wide competition to see who can get the most sick-minded anti-abortion law e...

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South Dakota Lawmakers Still Hard At Work Restricting Reproductive Rights

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Now that their controversial "First thing we'll do is kill all the abortion providers" bill has been shelved indefinitely, South Dakota lawmakers are back doing what they do best: making it just as hard as possible for women to exercise, or even have, reproductive rights, because, in the eyes of said lawmakers, women are chattel.

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South Dakota Shelves Controversial 'Justifiable Homicide' Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Two days after Kate Sheppard of Mother Jones reported on a controversial measure being considered in South Dakota that "would expand the definition of...

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Lawmaker Behind South Dakota's 'Justifiable Homicide' Bill Defends Measure [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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The internet is straight blowing up at the news on Tuesday that lawmakers in South Dakota are mulling a piece of legislation that would seem to make it legally permissible to kill abortion providers. Says Vicki Saporta, the head of the National Abortion Federation, "The bill in South Dakota is an invitation to murder abortion providers." The bill's sponsor, state Rep. Phil Jensen, spoke to The Plum Line's Greg Sargent this morning, and guess what? He feels his law is being badly misinterpreted!

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South Dakota Moves To Legalize Killing Abortion Providers

Mother Jones | Kate Sheppard | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 ...

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