A judge's ruling keeps an abortion-rights question on the South Dakota ballot in November. A judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by an anti-abortion group seeking to have it removed. Supporters of the measure gathered enough valid signatures to put it before voters and turned them in earlier this year.
FILE - South Dakota Republican Rep. Jon Hansen stands in the House of Representatives in the state Capitol in Pierre, S.D., on Feb. 21, 2024. A judge rejected the lawsuit in a ruling Monday, July 15, 2024. , Life Defense Fund, that sought to have the question removed even though supporters turned in more than enough valid signatures to put it on the ballot.
“They have thrown everything they could dream up to stop the people of South Dakota from voting on this matter,” Adam Weiland, co-founder of Dakotans for Health, said in a statement after the ruling. “This is another failed effort by a small group opposed to giving women the option to terminate pregnancies caused by rape and incest or to address dangerous pregnancies affecting the life and health of women.
Republican Rep. Jon Hansen, who is a co-chair of the Life Defense Fund, and a lawyer for the group did not immediately return messages from The Associated Press on Monday. South Dakota is one of 14 states now enforcing a ban on abortion at every stage of pregnancy, a possibility theArkansas election officials reject petitions submitted for an abortion-rights ballot measureThe amendment supported by Dakotans for Health would bar the state from regulating “a pregnant woman’s abortion decision and its effectuation” in the first trimester, but it would allow second-trimester regulations “only in ways that are reasonably related to the physical health of the pregnant...
Advocates are waiting for signatures to be verified to get questions on the ballot this year in four more states, including Nebraska, where there could be
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