South Dakota legislator backs down from 'pro-life' bill to legalize murder

You know that South Dakota legislator who introduced a bill that could legalize the murder of abortion providers? Yeah, well, apparently he's been busy taking a lot of angry phone calls.

Via Greg Sargent:

South Dakota state representative Phil Jensen -- who unexpectedly found himself in the center of a national firestorm yesterday over his proposal to expand the state's definition of "justifiablede" to apply to killings in defense of the unborn -- now appears ready to back down.

Jensen tells me he is eyeing changes to the language of his bill that would make it airtight that abortion providers could not be targeted in any "justifiable homicide" protecting fetuses from the procedure.

Jensen is meeting with the state's Attorney General to discuss changing the language of the bill to make it clear that those who murder abortion providers will not be covered by the justifiable homicide defense.

"There's no way in the world that I or any other representatives wish to see abortion doctors murdered," Jensen told me. "So we're looking at some language that will include that. We're looking at some language that would protect abortion providers."

Well, that's reassuring. Yesterday, however, when...

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