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KELO: New Ways to Talk About the Abortion Ban
Election day is just six weeks away and that means South Dakota voters will again be deciding if abortions should be banned in the state. Vote Yes For Life, says this year’s ban allows exceptions for rape, incest, and the life and health of the mother. But no matter which side of the issue you stand on, both sides are already starting to get the word out about election day in unique ways.
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Public News Service: Media Campaigns Launch Over SD Abortion Debate
South Dakota voters will have another opportunity this November to decide whether they will support or reject a proposed abortion ban, and both sides are working aggressive grassroots education campaigns to get their messages out in the remaining weeks.
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KOTA Territory, ABC News: Abortion Ban Back on the Ballot
This fall, you decide again on an abortion ban called Initiated Measure 11, and grass-roots organizations on both sides of the issue want your vote.
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KEVN, Black Hills FOX: Campaign for Healthy Families Knocks Doors
Volunteers with the Campaign for Healthy Families were going door to door Wednesday in Spearfish. Their goal is to get the word out to the voters in Spearfish that the Measure 11 abortion ban will be back on this November’s Ballot.
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SD Public Broadcasting: Abortion Ban Exceptions
South Dakotan’s are being asked, again, to restrict abortion. Those behind this year’s attempt say it includes what voters say they wanted in 2006—more exceptions to the ban. Abortion rights supporters say, taken at face value, the ban includes exceptions. But in practice, no doctor would attempt the procedure, fearing prosecution. SDPB’s Johanna Sailor takes a closer look at the measure’s exception for the health of the women in today’s Dakota Digest.
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KEVN, Black Hills FOX: Central States Fair Hosts Healthy Families Education Effort
South Dakotans will vote on another abortion ban this November. Until then, the South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families is working hard to educate the public about the new measure. The campaign took its education effort to the Central States Fair Saturday.
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Keloland: Parents React To Alpha Center Ad In Directory
A school directory sent home with thousands of students has a full-page ad for The Alpha Center and is raising questions in Sioux Falls. Thursday parents talked about the ad that offers abortion counseling services.
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Wall Street Journal: South Dakota Vote Draws Attention
SIOUX FALLS, S.D.—Two years after a strict abortion ban here was overturned by voters, backers have brought a similar measure—but one laced with complexities that could bode well for its passage, and ultimately could bring about the challenge to Roe v. Wade desired by abortion foes nationwide.
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Argus Leader: Abortion rights groups blast initiative
A measure on the Nov. 4 ballot in South Dakota effectively would ban all abortions and is no better than a similar measure voters defeated two years ago, abortion rights supporters said Tuesday.
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AP: National groups campaign to defeat abortion ban
Abortion rights supporters launched a national campaign to defeat a proposed South Dakota abortion ban Tuesday, an effort that could help them raise money from all corners of the country.
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Anonymous
Having an abortion is never an easy decision for a woman. It is a very personal, heartfelt choice that no one else can, or has the right to make.
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Elizabeth from Vermillion
I’m old enough to remember what happened to women when abortions were criminalized in an earlier era.
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Lorraine from Spearfish
The people who are promoting this measure admit they want to challenge Roe v. Wade and this is one step in that process.
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