thefeministhub:

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Tue Feb. 15, 2011 3:00 AM PST

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 in South Dakota is an invitation to murder abortion providers.”

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.

The original version of the bill did not include the language regarding the “unborn child”; it was pitched as a simple clarification of South Dakota’s justifiable homicide law. Last week, however, the bill was “hoghoused”—a term used in South Dakota for heavily amending legislation in committee—in a little-noticed hearing. A parade of right-wing groups—the Family Heritage Alliance, Concerned Women for America, the South Dakota branch of Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum, and a political action committee called Family Matters in South Dakota—all testified in favor of the amended version of the law.

are. you. fucking. kidding. me.

liberal-lad:

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stfuconservatives:

mollyfreakinpotter:

I hate. This cunt.

That’s not how civil rights work… ANY oppressed group - truly oppressed, not “OMG it’s so hard to be a white man” oppressed - is being denied a civil right in some way. To vote, to marry, to own land, etc.

and the worst was yet to come:

the gays “ought to start being antiabortion because “once they find the gay gene, guess who’s getting aborted”

This bitch needs to go. 

ok i have a lot to say.

1. there are BLACK GAY PEOPLE..umm duhh?…..like what does that comment even mean?  

2. marriage is no longer religious, it is part of the legal system and I think everyone reading would agree that it is a part of society.  Definition of marriage to me is legally binding yourself to the person you love not “btw a man and a woman”.  separation btw church and state.  it’s not fucking illegal for atheists to get married.

3.  hasn’t this idiot heard of the hundreds of thousands of gay youth at shelters because they were kicked out of their homes?  does they not count in your theory of gay people make a lot of money?

4.  fuck you for telling me that I would get aborted if my parents knew I was gay.  I would abort you if a genetic test told me you were a cunt.

(via stfuconservatives)