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Volume 359:2189-2191 November 20, 2008 Number 21 Next

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Under a law that went into effect in July, physicians in South Dakota must tell any woman seeking an abortion that she is terminating the life of "a whole, separate, unique, living human being" with whom she has an "existing relationship," that her relationship "enjoys protection under the United States Constitution and under the laws of South Dakota," and that abortion terminates that relationship along with "her existing constitutional rights with regards to that relationship."¹

The "informed-consent" law (see box) was passed in 2005 but was immediately suspended by an injunction sought by Planned Parenthood, which operates the only . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Ms. Lazzarini is an associate professor and director of the Division of Medical Humanities, Health Law, and Ethics at the University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, and a faculty member at the Center for Law and the Public's Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore.

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