South Dakota laws will reflect abortion ban
PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — South Dakota’s legal code will be updated to show that most abortions are now prohibited in the state.
The South Dakota Code Commission has voted in favor of recommendations from Code Counsel Jason Goetz.
Those changes will delete the former trimester approach that South Dakota used and will instead reflect the ‘trigger’ law that the Legislature approved in 2005.
The 2005 law said that performing or procuring an abortion other than to preserve the life of the pregnant female would become a Class 6 felony “on the date states are recognized by the United States Supreme Court to have the authority to prohibit abortion at all stages of pregnancy.”
The nation’s highest court issued that decision last June. Goetz now intends to remove the texts of five provisions, including the retroactively outlawed trimester approach, and list each of them as “Repealed.”
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