Another Scary Place to Live

South Dakota Governer Michael Rounds signed four intensely anti-abortion laws last week that will seriously restrict a women’s right to choose.
Ms Magazine reports, the four Bills include:
*The first requires doctors to inform women who seek an abortion that they will be terminating the life of “a whole, separate, unique, living human being” with which the woman has “an existing relationship.”
*[The second] law signed by Rounds would outlaw abortion in the state if the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose was no longer protected by the federal government.
*The third bill signed by the governor would require parental notification within 24 hours of a minor having an emergency abortion, unless the minor could obtain a court order permitting confidentiality.
*The final bill signed creates a state task force intended to study the history of abortion since it became a constitutionally protected right in 1973.

This is wonderful, really wonderful.

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