Planned Parenthood Sues South Dakota Over Restrictive Abortion Law

[kpete]

Source: Talking Points Memo

Planned Parenthood sued the state of South Dakota last Friday over a new law that requires women to receive counseling at a "pregnancy help center" before they can have an abortion, and imposes a 72-hour waiting period between that counseling and when a doctor can perform the procedure.

In a press release, Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota said that the new law toughens what were already the most stringent abortion laws in the nation and infringes on both patients' and doctors' First Amendment rights against "compelled speech."

"This law goes farther than any other in the country in intruding on the doctor-patient relationship, and putting women and families at risk," Sarah Stoesz, president and chief executive of Planned Parenthood, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota was quoted as saying in the press release.

The law, H.B. 1217, is framed as a measure intended to prevent women from the threat of "induced abortion." It states that women are too often inadequately informed about the implications of abortions, and that the laws purpose is to, "protect the pregnant mother's

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[MountainLaurel]

1. I hope they win

These attempts to unofficially reverse Roe vs. Wade are insane.

[defendandprotect]

2. k/r

[AlbertCat]

3. "protect the pregnant mother's interest in her relationship with her child"

By making her hear lectures from unqualified zealots with an agenda and false and unproven medical info?

Hardly. What a scam.

[progressoid]

4. I still dig into the couch cushions for loose change to give to PP

I don't have much for anything else but PP is worth it.

[Corruption Winz]

5. At face-value, the law isn't the worst thing on the planet...

However, the reason it's in place is horrible. It's a scare tactic. They hope they scare the women out of making a logical choice. They hope to make it tougher in general so that a woman has to think twice about getting it done in the first place. They also know that any extra time that a woman waits might make the safety of abortion lessen and it might skew the numbers on abortion.

Horrible.