South Dakota State Rep. Phil Jensen is considering a change to his bill that would broadly allow for killing in defense of an unborn child to be considered “justifiable homicide,” following an outcry over the possibility that the language would pave the way for the murder of abortion doctors to be legally defensible.Greg Sargent of the Washington Post reports that Jensen is considering language to make it clear that murdering abortion providers is not protected by the new language: “There’s no way in the world that I or any other representatives wish to see abortion doctors murdered. So we’re looking at some language that will include that. We’re looking at some language that would protect abortion providers.”
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