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Mar. 18th, 2005 04:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingA new state law in South Dakota requires doctors, before performing abortions, to have their patients sign a statement acknowledging that they are terminating the life of ''a whole, separate, unique, living human being."
The statement tells a woman that she has ''an existing relationship with that unborn human being" and the relationship is protected under the US Constitution and the laws of South Dakota.
Women must also be told of the mental and physical health risks of abortion. If a woman has questions, the doctor must answer them in writing, and the answers become part of the patient's medical records.
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Of course, the information about the risks of abortion they give you is the "faith-based" stuff - which is to say, the opposite of "fact-based"
The statement tells a woman that she has ''an existing relationship with that unborn human being" and the relationship is protected under the US Constitution and the laws of South Dakota.
Women must also be told of the mental and physical health risks of abortion. If a woman has questions, the doctor must answer them in writing, and the answers become part of the patient's medical records.
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Of course, the information about the risks of abortion they give you is the "faith-based" stuff - which is to say, the opposite of "fact-based"