We're much more sensitive to the digressions of others than we are to our own. So it's easy to throw around jihad and sharia law when discussing them, but I guess we're slowly getting
sharia of our own?
South Dakota Moves To Legalize Killing Abortion Providers
A bill under consideration in the Mount Rushmore State would make preventing harm to a fetus a "justifiable homicide" in many cases.
A law under consideration in South Dakota would expand the definition of "justifiable homicide" to include killings that are intended to prevent harm to a fetus—a move that could make it legal to kill doctors who perform abortions. The Republican-backed legislation, House Bill 1171, has passed out of committee on a nine-to-three party-line vote, and is expected to face a floor vote in the state's GOP-dominated House of Representatives soon.
The bill, sponsored by state Rep. Phil Jensen, a committed foe of abortion rights, alters the state's legal definition of justifiable homicide by adding language stating that a homicide is permissible if committed by a person "while resisting an attempt to harm" that person's unborn child or the unborn child of that person's spouse, partner, parent, or child. If the bill passes, it could in theory allow a woman's father, mother, son, daughter, or husband to kill anyone who tried to provide that woman an abortion—even if she wanted one.
More at the hyperlink above.
If you're of the opinion that abortion is the outright murder of another human being, then you can get a perspective regarding the intent of those who want to deter the practice outright. I have sympathy for this point of view. However, this law, if it passes, is vile and likely no better than some of the draconian elements of Sharia law that has generated thread upon thread of hysteria and consternation.
The added irony here is that South Dakota is a state that is explicitly trying to
ban Sharia.