Abortion ban repeal drive gets 37,846 signatures

[existentialist]

I did a search and found that this news had already been posted in the form of a link to a site, but I found nothing so far as text actually posted on DU, so i'm posting:



http://argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060530/NEWS/60530002/1001

Abortion ban repeal drive gets 37,846 signatures

May 30, 2006


The South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families announced Tuesday that it had secured more than twice the number of signatures it needed to refer the abortion ban passed by the 2006 Legislature to a vote of the people this fall.

At a press conference at the Downtown Holiday Inn, officials with the campaign said they had 37,846 signatures – more than double the 16,728 they needed to get.

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Supporters of the repeal said they had 1,200 volunteers from 138 communities circulate the petitions. None of the volunteers were paid, they said.

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The group planned to file nearly 38,000 signatures with the secretary of state in Pierre early Tuesday afternoon. That’s about 20,000 more than required for a referral – the process by which citizens may veto actions of the Legislature


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[ceile]

1. Thanks for the update.

I was beginning to wonder if they were having any success up there.

[El Fuego]

2. EXCELLENT NEWS!

Planned Parenthood made a brilliant move in taking it to the people. If they had filed a suit to trigger a test case for the SCOTUS, they would have played right into hands of the anti-choicers.

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. And other state legislatures may take note of what happens

when the people stand up to bad legislation.

They are supposed to be representatives of the people, not dictators to the people. If the people vote their legislations down and they fight it, they may well go down themselves.

A wake-up call from Democracy.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Now comes the real fight...

and I hope they're up to it on election day.