The People Of South Dakota May Get Their Say

South Dakota Initiative To Place Abortion Law On The Ballot

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Abortion rights supporters launched a referendum drive Friday to overturn a South Dakota abortion ban designed to challenge the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing the practice nationwide. A new coalition, South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families, said it will try to collect thousands of signatures aimed at giving state voters a chance to decide in November on what it called "the nation's most extreme abortion law."