South Dakota abortion rights groups collect enough signatures to advance ballot measure

A proposed amendment to enshrine abortion access in South Dakota’s constitution is one step closer to appearing on the November 2024 ballot, after a coalition of reproductive rights advocates submitted the required number of signatures on Wednesday. Dakotans for Health, the group leading the ballot effort, announced it had collected the signatures of more than 55,000 registered voters — far more than the 35,000 needed to move forward with the process of getting their proposal on the ballot.

If passed by voters, the measure 'will restore women’s personal freedom and overturn South Dakota’s blanket abortion ban by writing into our constitution the protections contained in the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision,” said Dakotans for Health co-founder Rick Weiland. “The Freedom Amendment is about empowering individuals to make deeply personal decisions about their own bodies and futures,” Weiland said.

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