Add to the list - reported by msnbc about three days ago, but no longer news, apparently, as it now seems to be gone from there.

The closest I find easily to the original report is now at Mother Jones.

The Huffington Post quotes that source in a report of a "modification" of the South Dakota bill to "expand the definition of "justifiable homicide" to include killings that are intended to prevent harm to a fetus -- a move that could make it legal to kill doctors who perform abortions."

The infamously anti-abortion Republican author of the bill said "it has nothing to do with abortion," which is (IMO) ludicrous. The bill has been amended to add "in defense of ... during the commission of an illegal act."

So as now proposed, it would be illegal to kill an abortion provider unless the doctor messed up the paperwork.

("the paperwork" has been a consistent and repeated basis for anti-abortionist claims that "illegal abortions" are being performed, and the "reasonable belief that" an illegal threat was apparent has generally been "sufficient justification" for a justifiable homicide defense in courts.)

But the bill has "nothing to do with abortion."

John