Abortion: Is this what you mean?

Penna Dexter
Aug 14, 2008

DALLAS (BP)--A Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Sioux Falls, S.D., the only abortion clinic in the state, temporarily closed last month, pro-lifers in the state reported.

It was either that or comply with a law recently upheld by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. The law requires abortionists in the state to tell women seeking their services that "the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being" and that the woman has an "existing relationship with that unborn human being." In addition, she must be told about the physical and psychological risks related to the abortion. The physical risks, she must be told, include hemorrhage, infection, danger to subsequent pregnancies, infertility, and an increase risk of suicide. The psychological risks, she must be told, include depression. The abortion clinic also must provide a "scientifically accurate statement describing the development of the unborn child." the rest