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South Dakota 20-Week Abortion Ban (SB 72)
This law was last updated on Jul 7, 2017
This law is Anti–Choice
Number
SB 72
Status
Current
Proposed
Jan 22, 2016
Sponsors
Co-sponsors: 49
Primary Sponsors: 2
Total Sponsors: 51
Full Bill Text
SB 72 would prohibit all abortions after the twentieth week of pregnancy, except when the pregnancy exposes the woman to a risk of death or “serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function, not including a psychological or emotional condition.”
This bill makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for a physician to intentionally or recklessly perform, or attempt to perform, an abortion of an “unborn child” capable of feeling pain unless it is a medical emergency
The bill uses the medically unfounded claim that an “unborn child” is capable of feeling pain at twenty or more weeks.
If an abortion is determined to be medically necessary, the physician would be required to abort the pregnancy in a manner that provides the best opportunity for the “unborn child” to survive.
Reporting Requirements
This bill would amend 34-23A-34 to include the following additional reporting requirements:
- How the post-fertilization age was determined, or if a determination was not made, the basis of the determination that an exception existed.;
- Whether an intra-fetal injection was used in an attempt to induce fetal demise;
- If the “unborn child” was deemed capable of experiencing pain, the basis of determination that a serious health risk to the “unborn child’s” mother exists; and
- If an abortion was performed, whether the method provided the best opportunity for the “unborn child” to survive, and if not, why.
Related Legislation
Based on model legislation drafted by the National Right to Life Committee.
People
Co-sponsor
- Reid Holien
- William Shorma
- Elizabeth May
- Tom Holmes
- Sam Marty
- Jeff Partridge
- Wayne Steinhauer
- Mathew Wollmann
- Arthur Rusch
- Michele Harrison
- Steven Haugaard
- Kent Peterson
- Steve Westra
- Fred Deutsch
- Lynne DiSanto
- Lana Greenfield
- Joshua Klumb
- John Wiik
- Larry Zikmund
- Lance Russell
- G. Mark Mickelson
- Corey Brown
- Mike Verchio
- Burt Tulson
- Ray Ring
- Kris Langer
- Gary Cammack
- Jim Bolin
- Bruce Rampelberg
- Phil Jensen
- Betty Olson
- Jenna Haggar
- David Omdahl
- Jim Stalzer
- Lee Qualm
- David Novstrup
- Don Haggar
- Blaine Campbell
- David Anderson
- Nancy Rasmussen
- Leslie Heinemann
- Scott Craig
- Lee Schoenbeck
- Brock Greenfield
- Mark Willadsen
- Tim Rounds
- Al Novstrup
- Phyllis Heineman
- Thomas Brunner
Primary Sponsor
Organizations
- National Right to Life Committee — Drafted Model Law
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