The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals will be hearing Planned Parenthood's challenge to a 2005 South Dakota law that provides information to women seeking an abortion.
From the Rapid City Journal:
Harold Cassidy, attorney for two South Dakota pregnancy help centers that have intervened in the case, said it presents several firsts in abortion jurisprudence.
It’s the first time the federal appeals court will address whether an abortion terminates human life, poses a risk for depression and suicide, and ends what Cassidy describes as a woman’s constitutionally protected relationship to the unborn child.
He said it’s also the first time that pregnancy help centers have pitted themselves against an abortion provider as advocates for women’s rights.
“Planned Parenthood sees itself as the great defender of women’s rights, when one of the greatest secrets is that 3,500 pregnancy centers in the U.S. are helping women” make other choices about their unwanted pregnancy, such as keeping the child or giving it up for adoption, Cassidy said.
Does abortion really end a human life? That's the elephant in the room that Planned Parenthood--and the courts--have always avoided dealing with, all the way back to 1973s Roe v. Wade.
It's time we dealt with the pivotal question of abortion: is it killing a human life?
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