South Dakota: Justifiable Homicide to include murder

[MountainHawk]

as long the the victim is an abortion doctor?

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, if there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a felony, or to do some great personal injury, and imminent danger of such design being

http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/20...=HB1171HJU.htm



Ummm ... really?

[erosewater]

Sounds like it only applies if it's your unborn child, sibling, or grandchild, or the unborn child of your "master, mistress, or servant". Don't know what those last three entail, but the first three seem pretty uncommon that someone would be looking to off the abortion doc. I guess grandchild I could see.

[erosewater]

But still pretty effed up in general. It's one thing to be a pro-life legislator, quite another to say "Let's pass a bill making it legal to kill an abortion doctor"

[Hugh Jass]

I'm sure the conservatives on here will find some biblical justification for this

[The President]

That part is if you are killed while pregnant, or beaten or something else while pregnant and wanted to deliver, that the accused could be tried for murder/double murder.

[The President]

I think the second half eliminates abortion doctors, no?

[Hugh Jass]

Originally Posted by The President

That part is if you are killed while pregnant, or beaten or something else while pregnant and wanted to deliver, that the accused could be tried for murder/double murder.

oh

I thought most places had laws like that already

[Hugh Jass]

could someone kill their spouse because the spouse kept feeding them unhealthy and it could be argued that they were trying to kill them via cholesterol?

[The President]

Wait, think I read that wrong.

If you try to kill an unborn child, Id agree that homicide is justified in preventing that, assuming the person isn't a doctor hired by the mom to perform an otherwise legal action of her own choosing.

[Dismal Science]

Wow, you wacky liberals really jumped all over this one and blew it out of proportion.