The South Dakota Supreme Court has reversed a judge's dismissal of a lawsuit seeking to remove an abortion rights initiative from the November ballot. The court's order came Friday, soon after the anti-abortion group Life Defense Fund appealed the judge's July ruling.
The court on Friday reversed the order of dismissal and sent the case back for further proceedings. The anti-abortion group Life Defense Fund hadIn a statement, Life Defense Fund co-chair Leslee Unruh said the group is thrilled the court expedited the case and sent it back to the lower court.
“ Rick Weiland and his paid posse have broken laws, tricked South Dakotans into signing their abortion petition, left petitions unattended, and much more. Dakotans for Health illegally gathered signatures to get Amendment G on the ballot, therefore this measure should not be up for a vote this November,” she said.
The Associated Press emailed a request for comment to Dakotans for Health, the group that brought the measure. Measure backersPentagon panel to review Medals of Honor given to soldiers at the Wounded Knee massacreThe measure 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 woman.
The constitutional amendment would allow the state to regulate or prohibit abortion in the third trimester, “except when abortion is necessary, in the medical judgment of the woman’s physician, to preserve the life or health of the pregnant woman.”abortion as a felony crime except in instances to save the life of the mother, under a trigger law that took effect in 2022
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