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The state legislature has passed House Bill 1217, which requires women seeking an abortion to wait seventy-two hours and undergo counseling with a licensed physician before having the abortion. This will be the longest wait-time in the nation. The bill is now sitting on the desk of pro-life Governor Dennis Daugaard. The law is designed to allow time for women thinking about having an abortion, to provide them the material to make informed choices, and to prevent them from being coerced into having an unwanted abortion.

In South Dakota, all abortions are done by out-of-state doctors who usually fly in on Monday morning, are paid based on the number of abortions they complete, and then fly out that evening. The doctor only spends about five to seven minutes total with each woman and meets them for the first time only after the woman has undressed for the abortion. Women who come to the clinic are required to sign a consent form for the abortion and even pay for the procedure as a precondition to seeing the so-called “patient educator” for counseling. These “educators” are untrained, uncertified, and unable to counsel women “about fetal development or other counseling issues.”

This bill provides women in South Dakota with a variety of resources not previously available. With the assistance of an independent physician and pregnancy help center expectant mothers can be better informed of this life-altering decision. Those who really care about women will enthusiastically endorse this bill.

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