South Dakota § 34-23A-91 - Intentional, knowing, or negligent failure to comply--Civil action.
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§ 34-23A-91. Intentional, knowing, or negligent failure to comply--Civil action.
Where there has been an intentional, knowing, or negligent failure to comply with the provisions of §§ 34-23A-89 to 34-23A-93, inclusive, a pregnant woman who undergoes an abortion, or her survivors, may bring a civil action, and obtain liquidated damages in the amount of ten thousand dollars, plus reasonable attorney's fees and costs jointly and severally from the physician who performed the abortion and the abortion facility where the abortion was performed.
This amount shall be in addition to any damages that the woman or survivors may be entitled to receive under any common law or statutory provisions, to the extent that she sustains any injury. This amount shall also be in addition to the amounts that the woman or other survivors of the deceased unborn child may be entitled to receive under any common law or statutory provisions, including the wrongful death statutes of this state.
Source: SL 2021, ch 151, § 3.
Source: official South Dakota text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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