Legal Source #20 – Legislative Hearing

“In passing the Human Life Bill, we are saying that the unborn child is a person, a human being, and as such, it is entitled to the due process law of protection of the 14th amendment”20 20Representative Charles F. Dougherty, The Human Life Bill: Hearings on S. 158 Before the Subcommittee on Separation of Powers…

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Legal Source #25 – Legislative Hearing

“That the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being”25 25S.D.C.L. Section 34-23A-10.1(1)(b), https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&Statute=34-23A-10.1.

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Legal Source #26 – Legislative Hearing

“”Human being,” an individual living member of the species of Homo sapiens, including the unborn human being during the entire embryonic and fetal ages from fertilization to full gestation”26 26S.D.C.L. Section 34-23A-1, https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&Statute=34-23A-1.

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Legal Source #17 – Legislative Hearing

“We had some very distinguished witnesses at our previous hearings who were quite categorical that life does begin at the time of conception”17 17Senator John P. East, The Human Life Bill: Hearings on S. 158 Before the Subcommittee on Separation of Powers of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 97th Cong., 1st Sess. (1981), p.…

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Legal Source #5 – Legislative Hearing

“The Congress finds that present day scientific evidence indicates a significant likelihood that actual human life exists from conception.”5 5The Language of the Bill, The Human Life Bill: Hearings on S. 158 Before the Subcommittee on Separation of Powers of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 97th Cong., 1st Sess. (1981), p. 2.

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Legal Source #3 – Legislative Hearing

“The Task Force concludes the following… abortion terminates the life of a unique, whole, living human being”3 3Report of The South Dakota Task Force to Study Abortion, Submitted to the Governor and Legislature of South Dakota, 2005, p. 13, https://www.dakotavoice.com/Docs/South%20Dakota%20Abortion%20Task%20Force%20Report.pdf.

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Legal Source #2 – Legislative Hearing

“Physicians, biologists, and other scientists agree that conception marks the beginning of the life of a human being–of a being that is alive and is a member of the human species. There is overwhelming agreement on this point in countless medical, biological, and scientific writings”2  2S-158, 97th Congress, 1st Session, 1981, p. 7.

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