SB87

South Dakota currently requires doctors to obtain informed written consent before performing an abortion, and this bill adds new specific information that must be included in that consent process. Doctors would now have to tell women that the abortion will terminate "a whole, separate, unique, living human being" and explain that the woman has an existing constitutional relationship with the unborn child that will be terminated by the procedure. These additions go beyond the current informed consent requirements to include specific language about the nature of the fetus and the woman's constitutional relationship to it.