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January 12, 2007
SD anti-choice law gets a rare rehearing
South Dakota just pisses me the hell off.
A federal appeals court has agreed to rehear a challenge of a 2005 South Dakota law that would require doctors to tell women seeking abortions that the procedure ends a human life.…The appeals court grants only about one in 50 requests for a full court rehearing, state Attorney General Larry Long said Wednesday. "This is a rare and unusual event, and we're just delighted."
Delighted is one way to put it. Horrified is another.
Under the law—which was temporarily blocked because the law violated doctors’ right to free speech—docs have to give patients a written document that includes a statement that "the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being." Lovely. Nothing like forcing anti-choice ideology onto doctors.
Posted by Jessica at January 12, 2007 2:06 PM