SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - An abortion-rights supporter says she's upset that the final report of the South Dakota Abortion Task Force was altered from the version approved at a Dec. 9 meeting.

Kate Looby, state director of Planned Parenthood, said the changes were made without the knowledge of abortion-rights advocates on the panel. Looby said she thinks the action was designed to protect the state against a potential libel suit.

The version that had been approved at the December meeting included searing language about the testimony of an expert witnesses, Looby said.

An abortion opponent on the task force, state Rep. Roger Hunt, R-Brandon, said everything taken out of the report was removed because it was not part of the task force's fact-gathering mandate.

"The report needed to reflect what we were told to gather. It was a matter of not being in compliance with the directive that was established for the task force," Hunt said.

Another task force member said the only changes were in grammar and punctuation.

Looby disagreed, saying that whole paragraphs and full sentences were removed.

The report was handed in to state lawmakers Friday. The task force's job was to study the practice, science and effect of abortion and recommend new legislation or changes to existing law.

Looby and three other members walked out of the Dec. 9 meeting, saying the group's process was biased. As a result, they were not part of a subsequent conference call in which changes recommended by the Legislative Research Council were approved, Hunt said.

Hunt would not say whether a potential lawsuit against the state had been discussed.

The version of the report approved Dec. 9 included language about Dr. Stanley Henshaw, a researcher at the Alan Guttmacher Institute in New York, who had testified about the effects of legalized abortion on children's health.

"The Task Force finds his testimony offensive as being eugenic in nature and disregards his opinion," the report reads. The practice of eugenics involves the improvement of the human species through controlling genetics and mating.

"In fact, we find Dr. Henshaw's discourse on how legal abortion has advanced the health of children absurd," the report reads.

Both of those sentences and about 125 other words concerning Henshaw's testimony were deleted from the report given to legislators Friday.

The changes make a mockery of the entire process, Looby said.

Looby, state Rep. Stan Adelstein, R-Rapid City, Dr. Maria Bell and Linda Holcomb submitted a second report to legislators Friday. The minority report suggested ways to curb abortion by preventing unwanted pregnancies.