South Dakota currently bans abortion at all stages of pregnancy, with no exceptions for rape or incest.
People gather to rally on broad access to the abortion pill outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on March 26, 2024.New polling out of South Dakota indicates that a majority of residents in the deeply conservative, Republican-controlled state are supportive of protecting abortion rights.. Passed in 2005, a “trigger” law banning abortion went into effect after the U.S.
Despite the strong Republican hold on the state, however, voters are overwhelmingly supportive of an abortion rights initiative that’s set to be on the ballot in this fall’s elections., would create a framework that limits state regulation of abortion services based on the trimester of pregnancy. In the first trimester, the state is not allowed to interfere with a person’s abortion rights whatsoever.
The shift in support for the measure is a big change from what voters were saying in November — back then, only 46 percent of voters overall backed the same measure, with 44 percent opposed.
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