3.29.2006

take THAT

Governor Mike Rounds may have banned all abortions in South Dakota with the exception of those to save a mother's life, but women are taking action:

"To me, it is now a question of sovereignty," says President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Cecilia Fire Thunder. "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."
check it out.

how interesting! native american reservations aren't subject to federal or state laws, so this would be entirely doable. also, the majority of women who get abortions in this nation are upper-middle class white women. how ironic that if roe v. wade is overturned, native americans, a people who have been oppressed by whites for so long, will have the power to abort the descendants of their oppressors.
that's one way to look at it, at least, and it is admittedly a bit 'whoah' to consider. first and foremost, i view this as women uniting, but just think of where this one could go.
think before you start slappin' laws around, conservakiddies...

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