Battle Begins To Overturn South Dakota Abortion Law.

Source: MyWay.com

With firm battle lines drawn, this battle over state-banned abortions is going to get ugly.

An abortion rights coalition, South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families, said they would make public their strategies to take down the bill during mid-morning press conferences scheduled in Sioux Falls and Rapid City.

Part of the impeding legal challenge may not be a lawsuit a first, but a referendum designed to build a movement and engage the public in the process.

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (Reuters)--Abortion rights supporters planned to launch an attack on Friday on a new South Dakota abortion law designed as a direct challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion 33 years ago.

South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds, a Republican, signed the law, widely considered the most restrictive in the nation, about two weeks ago. The measure bans nearly all abortions, even in cases of incest and rape, and says that if a woman's life is in jeopardy, doctors must try to save the life of the fetus as well as the woman.

An abortion rights coalition, South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families, said it would lay out its strategy to take down the law in mid-morning news conferences in Sioux Falls and Rapid City.

Abortion opponents have been counting on a legal challenge to the law and hope that the case could eventually take the intensely divisive issue all the way back to the U.S. Supreme Court.

This is freedom at its best. Take this issue to the polls and let the people decide if the law lives or dies.

Maybe all is not lost in this nation?



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