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PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) — A resolution that redefines when life begins has passed South Dakota’s House State Affairs Committee Wednesday.
The 8 to 4 vote sends the bill to the House floor. If approved by both the House and Senate, the proposed amendment to the state constitution would go before voters at the next general election.
Representative Steven Haugaard, the resolution’s prime sponsor, says the measure would change the definition of a human being. The amendment indicates that an individual living member of the species of Homo sapiens from fertilization to full-term is a human being.
Many anti-abortion organizations expect the Supreme Court to overturn Roe versus Wade. If passed, this latest resolution lays a framework for the outright ban of abortions in South Dakota.
Haugaard is a candidate for Governor in the Republican primary. He says he would have brought the resolution even if he wasn’t running against Governor Kristi Noem.
(Kyle Ireland, SDBA, contributed this report.)
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