Governor Kristi Noem speaking with attendees at the 2020 Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Republican legislators in South Dakota have refused to consider a bill proposed by Gov. Kristi Noem which would have banned almost all abortions if a fetal heartbeat could be detected, a move the governor has called “unprecedented in the very worst way.”

Gov. Noem had introduced the legislation last month on the same day the 49th annual March for Life took place in Washington, D.C., along with a bill draft which would prohibit the distribution of abortion drugs through the mail. Early signs pointed to the future success of the bills, which together would ban nearly all abortions in the Mount Rushmore State.

However, in a surprise move last week, a Republican-led committee of the state’s House of Representatives refused to grant a hearing for the bill which would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected (or about six weeks gestation), effectively killing the proposed legislation. 

Modeled after Texas’ life-saving Heartbeat Act, which prohibits all abortions in the Lone Star State after about six weeks gestation, South Dakota’s law would also have borrowed Texas’ unique enforcement mechanism which empowers private citizens to sue abortionists rather than utilizing criminal charges filed by state prosecutors.

Read more at Life Site News.

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MikefromTexas
MikefromTexas
2 years ago

Well I hope ya’ll don’t blame her, like they did when she didn’t like the boys playing in girls sports because she didn’t like how it was written. How blame the SD house republicans.

Watchman48
Watchman48
2 years ago
Reply to  MikefromTexas

I rest on the assurance of God’s WORD, the acts of those that should know better is not hidden from God; for He who rewards those for doing what is right, will also reward those who sins against the most innocent of all life in the wombs of their mothers.