{"id":284471,"date":"2023-01-30T08:42:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T14:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=284471"},"modified":"2023-01-27T17:23:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T23:23:37","slug":"south-dakota-representative-abortion-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/south-dakota-representative-abortion-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"South Dakota Representative admits abortion is &#8216;killing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/01\/26\/south-dakota-democrat-says-quiet-part-loud-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Signal<\/a>) A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/tag\/south-dakota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">South Dakota Democrat<\/a>\u00a0characterized abortion as an act of \u201ckilling\u201d during a Thursday press briefing at the state Capitol in Pierre.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking about exceptions for rape, state Rep. Erin Healy, a Democrat from Minnehaha County, warned that a woman might face risk of prison time \u201cfor killing her\u2026 her fetus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She questioned whether an alleged rapist would have to be convicted in court in order for a woman not to face prosecution\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/tag\/abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">for her abortion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>When it comes to other exceptions, I\u2019m assuming that we\u2019re talking about rape and incest here, it opens up a great area for what does a rape mean? A woman should always be trusted when they say that they were raped. But how would they prove that? Does it have to be in the court of law? If that rape is found \u2026 if it had gone to trial and the person was not convicted, would that abortion now be something where we\u2019re putting a woman at risk for being imprisoned, for jail time for killing her\u2026 her fetus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Healy delivered remarks at a state Democratic leadership briefing alongside state Sen. Reynold F. Nesiba, who represents Minnehaha County, and state Rep. Oren L. Lesmeister, who represents Corson, Dewey, and Ziebach counties.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Fury, chief of communications for the state\u2019s Republican governor,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/tag\/kristi-noem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kristi Noem<\/a>, tweeted the footage of Healy\u2019s remark. Her full remark leading up to the \u201ckilling\u201d statement begins around 1:17:30 in the video below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yes, abortion is \u201ckilling.\u201d Thanks for saying the quiet part out loud, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SoDakDems?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SoDakDems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No, women will not be prosecuted in South Dakota. Doctors who break the law will. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dnRgWyXYmR\">pic.twitter.com\/dnRgWyXYmR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Fury (@IanTFury) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanTFury\/status\/1618649995556835328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> in the <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em> ruling last June, South Dakota\u2019s \u201ctrigger law\u201d came into effect. The law, passed in 2005, made it a felony for a person to induce an abortion except in cases where the pregnancy poses a threat to the mother\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny person who administers to any pregnant female or who prescribes or procures for any pregnant female any medicine, drug, or substance or uses or employs any instrument or other means with intent thereby to procure an abortion, unless there is appropriate and reasonable medical judgment that performance of an abortion is necessary to preserve the life of the pregnant female, is guilty of a Class 6 felony,\u201d the law states.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/walgreens-cvs-petition\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-283198\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg\" alt=\"Walgreens CVS banner\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--768x197.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--500x128.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Class 6 felony is punishable by a maximum of two years\u2019 imprisonment in the state penitentiary or a fine of $4,000, or both.<\/p>\n<p>A person performing an abortion, not the woman herself, faces the felony charge under the law.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Healy nor the South Dakota Democratic Party immediately responded to The Daily Signal\u2019s request for comment. This story will be updated with any response.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a breaking story and may be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: This article was published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/01\/26\/south-dakota-democrat-says-quiet-part-loud-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Signal<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/give.liveaction.org\/future-of-abortion\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=minibomb&amp;src=v2\">Did you know that as little as $10 a month is enough to reach more than 3,000\u00a0<b>people<\/b>\u00a0with the truth about abortion\u00a0<b>that no one else is telling them?<\/b>\u00a0Click here to start saving lives 365 days a year.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Daily Signal) A\u00a0South Dakota Democrat\u00a0characterized abortion as an act of \u201ckilling\u201d during a Thursday press briefing at the state Capitol in Pierre. While speaking about exceptions for rape, state Rep. Erin Healy, a Democrat from Minnehaha County, warned that a woman might face risk of prison time \u201cfor killing her\u2026 her fetus.\u201d She questioned whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":924,"featured_media":284475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[7077,3473,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>South Dakota Representative admits abortion is &#039;killing&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A\u00a0South Dakota Democrat\u00a0characterized abortion as an act of \u201ckilling\u201d during a Thursday press briefing at the state Capitol in Pierre.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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