The Legislature finds that pregnant women contemplating the termination of their right to their relationship with their unborn children, including women contemplating such termination by an abortion procedure, are faced with making a profound decision most often under stress and pressures from circumstances and from other persons, and that there exists a need for special protection of the rights of such pregnant women, and that the State of South Dakota has a compelling interest in providing such protection.
S.D. Codified Laws § 34-23A-1.5
Legislative findings--Special protection of rights of pregnant women
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Planned Parenthood Minnesota v. Rounds (2012)
Most recently applied in Planned Parenthood Minnesota v. Rounds (July 2012)
Source: SL 2005, ch 186, § 4.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.