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In Praise of Civil Disobedience
from I See Invisible People:
In response to the new law banning abortion in South Dakota, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has picked up the challenge. Cecilia Fire Thunder, President of the Oglala Sioux, issued a statement…
To me, it is now a question of sovereignty. I will personally establish a Planned Parenthood clinic on my own land which is within the boundaries of the Pine Ridge Reservation where the State of South Dakota has absolutely no jurisdiction.
Update: and then there’s this from Yahoo news:
SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (Reuters)- Abortion-rights supporters launched a referendum drive on Friday to overturn a South Dakota abortion ban designed to challenge the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing the practice nationwide.
A new coalition, South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families, said it would try to collect thousands of signatures aimed at giving state voters a chance decide in November on what it called “the nation’s most extreme abortion law.”
It’s gonna be a long year.
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