South Dakota may have shelved its controversial “justifiable homicide” bill to protect unborn children, but the trend has already caught on elsewhere, with both Nebraska and Iowa introducing bills with vague language about the use of justifiable force.The South Dakota bill would have added language to current state law specifying that, in some circumstances, killing someone in defense of an unborn child is “justifiable homicide.” The bill was quickly shelved, in the wake of controversy over its vague language, which, it was argued, could have allowed someone who kills an abortion doctor to use the bill as defense.
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