Drive against abortion ban urged to stop

[sarahlee]

PIERRE, S.D. -- A South Dakota political group said yesterday that it is asking an out-of-state organization to drop a petition drive that, if successful, would give voters a say on the state's new abortion ban.
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Focus: South Dakota said it wants to spearhead its own petition drive to put the abortion measure on the November ballot, and has asked Basic-Abortion-Rights Network of Waukesha, Wis., to withdraw.

"It's a loose group of individuals who were sitting around and thought it would be a good idea to do this," said Jim Robinson, treasurer for Focus: South Dakota. ''They're not organized, and we asked them to withdraw the petition because we want this to be a totally South Dakota operation. They were leaning towards doing that."

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/03/16/drive_against_abortion_ban_urged_to_stop/

I heard about this on NPR yesterday so did a google search just now.

This kind of action makes getting petion signatures for the Save Our Vote process even more important.
See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=178x656">my post here for more information on that.