<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 34-23A-67 - Legislative findings as to unborn child capable of experiencing pain. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2057188Normal { text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2057188SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2057188CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2057188Normal-000000 { text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2057188DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2057188Normal-000001 { margin-left: 0.70in; text-indent: -0.45in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2057188000002 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2057188SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2057188SCL-000003 { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } body { text-decoration-skip-ink: none; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="s2057188Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=34-23A-67"><span class="s2057188SENU">34-23A-67</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2057188SENU">. </span><span class="s2057188CL">Legislative findings as to unborn child capable of experiencing pain.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2057188Normal-000000"><span class="s2057188DefaultParagraphFont">The Legislature finds that:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2057188Normal-000001"><span class="s2057188DefaultParagraphFont">(1)    The state has a compelling state interest in protecting the lives of unborn children from the stage at which substantial medical evidence indicates that they are capable of feeling pain;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2057188Normal-000001"><span class="s2057188DefaultParagraphFont">(2)    There is substantial medical evidence that an unborn child is capable of experiencing pain by twenty weeks after fertilization.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2057188Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2057188000002"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2057188Normal"><span class="s2057188SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2057188SCL-000003"> SL 2016, ch 180, § 1.</span></p></div></body></html>