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This is like the humor version of death by a thousand final cuts.
State of South Dakota HB 1171
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2011/Bill.aspx?File=HB1171HJU.htm
Note: Underlining is from bill text and NOT added by me
Yeeeehaw! Open season on abortion doctors!
Why doesn’t South Carolina just start honoring Confederate currency (again) ?
They need to re-gauge all their railroad tracks too.
States rights, doncha know!
Is the underlined portion new text, added to an existing law?
The “commit any felony upon him or her, or … in any dwelling house” is also bit severe. Open season on a lot of folks.
Don’t know, but note that law has the text: “This bill has been extensively amended (hoghoused) and may no longer be consistent with the original intention of the sponsor.”
Perhaps it was added to an existing bill, but wasn’t a law yet.
Doesn’t it say you can kill an abortion doctor only if you’re the mother (“unborn child of such person”)?
So if your boyfriend tries to kill your kid by kicking you in the stomach, lethal force is justified (you can shoot his face off). A third party is not justified by this law.
Nope.
Not sure if the “any person” in the first part is limited by the list of people in the second part, but it’s certainly not limited to the mother.
So if a couple are separated, but still married, and the wife wants an abortion, the husband would be legally entitled to kill a doctor who provided a safe abortion?
Also, what is the deal with “servant” in the legislation? Is that normal legalese these days? What century are we in anyway?
I suppose if your maid or gardener wanted to get an abortion, you could whack the doctor legally.
I figure that after the Emancipation Proclamation they just did a global search-and-replace.
Yeah, that doesn’t seem to be specifically aimed at abortion providers. It just adds another layer of protection to the self-defense, uh, defense.
Given that the first rule of statutory interpretations is to read the whole statute, this amendment appears to immunize what would otherwise be the murder of an abortion provider by the sperm donor, the fetus carrier’s wishes and the medical need notwithstanding.
If it makes anybody feel any better, a subcommittee of the Iowa House has just voted out a proposed bill that just flat makes any abortion, any time, with or without medical justification, unlawful. It is a three person subcommittee and the vote was two to one. The proponent (a leader of the impeach the state supreme court faction) acknowledges that the bill doesn’t have a the chances of a tinker’s bitch in court. She is just looking for a vehicle to get the whole question in front of the US Supremes. That and a little publicity.
The state legislature is in session; no man’s life, liberty or property is secure.
By “abortion provider”, could this include pretty much anyone in the clinic?
If, for example, your housekeeper (servant) was in a clinic to get an abortion, and you did not approve, could you go in and shoot the receptionist, nurse, doctor and the cleaner, and still use this as your defense?
BTW, how the hell is a fetus a living person?
Genesis 2:7
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Do the fetuses (fetusi?) have little straws poking out the po-po so they can breathe nowadays?
No, it just means that now you can shoot someone for fucking with the dust on your ground too.
According to the law, why couldn’t somebody also murder the mother, assuming she was voluntarily putting the fetus’s life in danger by aborting it?
Yeah, I’m sure they could use the defense of, “But I was trying to save the baby, and whoops, the woman got in the way.”
Here is how I think you read the clarifying subsection:
22-16-35. Homicide is justifiable if committed by any person in the lawful defense … of his or her … unborn child …, if there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design … to do some great personal injury [to the unborn child], and imminent danger of such design being accomplished.
I don’t see this as an authorization to shoot the medical people who are going to abort your employee’s girlfriend’s fetus. I think the Second Amendment option is restricted to the mother and father of the fetus. It is not as expansive as some might think but it is still pretty radical and amounts to declaring open season on abortion providers and support staff (maybe down to the scrub nurse and the receptionist).
Your last paragraph. WAnt to vague that up some more? Either it is or it isn’t. First you say it isn’t…then you say it is.