Trib Article:
South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds signed legislation Thursday requiring doctors who perform abortions in the state to tell women scheduling the procedure that it ends the life of a human being and could leave them depressed or suicidal.
The step gives South Dakota one of the nation's most restrictive abortion consent laws.
Rounds approved the measure over the objection of abortion-rights advocates, who say physicians will be forced to tell patients medical lies.
Under the new law, women seeking an abortion in South Dakota must be told in person and in writing no later than two hours before a procedure that it will terminate the life of a "whole, separate, unique, living human being." Doctors also will have to outline risks women face from abortion and give them the addresses and phone numbers of adoption agencies.
I think this is a step in the right direction. Maybe some other states will join in.
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