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I have no idea what the hell's happened to my country.
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, 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.
I bet this ratbastard wants smaller government, too.

What the fuck is wrong with these insane assholes who have to control women's bodies and sexuality, force people to alter their lives, save fetuses they don't give a shit about once the kid is born, and stick their noses in everyone else's business? Because their God tells them to? That little First Amendment thing just doesn't mean what it says, after all.

It doesn't even matter that this is as unconstitutional as it gets. It's that the nutbars are so thoroughly in charge of the asylum, the rational is so thoroughly divorced from the actual conversation, that this foul creature feels he can comfortably submit a bill like this, one that would make it legal to kill someone performing, or possibly even getting, a legal medical procedure. Oh, yeah, that's "pro-life".

Jayzus fucking fuck.
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