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South Dakota court revives lawsuit against abortion rights initiative
The South Dakota Supreme Court has overturned a judge’s decision from last month that dismissed a lawsuit aimed at removing an abortion rights initiative from the November ballot. On Friday, the court reversed the dismissal and returned the case for further proceedings. The anti-abortion group Life Defense Fund had appealed Judge John Pekas’s ruling, which dismissed their lawsuit to invalidate…
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Iowa abortion law threatens rural maternity care access
Dr. Emily Boevers stands as the sole full-time OBGYN at a critical access hospital in a rural Iowa city, about 10 miles from her childhood farm. She is the only full-time OBGYN in the county, in a state that recently enacted a restrictive abortion law. Iowa’s new law, effective last week, bans most abortions once fetal cardiac activity is detected,…