Okay, they don’t really, but it’s still legal to tell that to women in South Dakota:
Yesterday, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the suicide advisory provision of South Dakota’s abortion law is constitutional, voting 7-4 to reverse a decision by a three-judge panel. The law requires doctors to tell patients seeking an abortion that there is a link between abortions and depression and other psychological distress including suicide.
The 8th Circuit decided that, despite the fact that the link between abortion and suicide is unproven and may not exist, the South Dakota law does not unduly burden abortion rights or violate the free speech rights of doctors.
The mental gymnastics of this are cringeworthy. So if the doctor also tells the patient that the legislature passed a lie, he can maybe be prosecuted for infanticide then? It would certainly seem that states in the Eighth Circuit can now compel teachers to recite that God created the Earth and placed man thereon 10,000 years ago.
Some of these idiotic male (and some female, mostly republican) so-called legislators ought to be required to have a doctor run a hanger up the crack of their asses just so they’d have a feeling of what profound inhumanity they are forcing on women!