By Dave Andrusko
South Dakota State Rep. Jenna Haggar
In a prelude to what is expected to be approval by the full House, South Dakota’s House Judiciary Committee today voted 9-3 to approve HB 1162 which would ban sex-selection abortions.
As South Dakota Right to Life explained on its Facebook account, the bill “will provide protections to the unborn and women being coerced into getting such abortions. Getting an abortion solely or partly due to the sex of the unborn child should not be legal in South Dakota.”
The abortionist “would have to ask a woman seeking an abortion whether she was doing so because of the gender of the fetus,” the Associated Press reported.
Rep. Jenna Haggar, HB1162’s main sponsor, said it is needed because there are now tests to determine a baby’s gender earlier in a pregnancy.
Currently seven states have sex-selection abortion bans. They are (in order of when they were enacted) Illinois, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Arizona, North Dakota, Kansas, and North Carolina.
Sex-selection abortion is a form of prenatal discrimination that wages a war on unborn baby girls, typically. In April 2013, a poll conducted by the Polling Company found that 85% of respondents supported banning sex-selection abortions.