SD calls off open season on abortion providers.

[RandySF]

Commentary: Please note the loaded headline from the NYT.


A state bill to expand the definition of justifiable homicide in South Dakota to include killing someone in the defense of an unborn child was postponed indefinitely Wednesday after an uproar over whether the legislation would put abortion providers at greater risk.

The House speaker, Val Rausch, said that the legislation had been shelved, pending a decision on whether to allow a vote, amend the language or drop it entirely. A spokesman for Gov. Dennis Daugaard said, “Clearly the bill as it’s currently written is a very bad idea.”

The bill, approved by the House Judiciary Committee last week on a 9-to-3 party-line vote, establishes in part that “homicide is justifiable if committed by any person in the lawful defense of such person, or of his or her husband, wife, parent, child, master, mistress, or servant, or the unborn child of any such enumerated person.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/us/17dakota.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

[uppityperson]

1. Open season on Pharmacists! If they sell birth control pills, they can be killed!

Since all Plan B is is a high dose of OC's, any pharmacy that dispenses OCs or Plan B can be shot up. Woohoo!

What do they mean "master" and "mistress"?

[Drale]

3. or Open Season on cashiers

because they cell condoms. Its almost like they are just trying to test the waters all over the US just to see what they can get away with. They really are like toddlers after being told no.

[golddigger]

4. That's what threw me also, "Masters and Mistresses?"

[uppityperson]

2. forgot, k&r for at shelving such an idiotic idea