FILE - South Dakota Republican state Rep. Jon Hansen, shown here Feb. 21, 2024, in the state House of Representatives in Pierre, S.D., is a co-chair of Life Defense Fund, an anti-abortion group which filed suit, June 13, 2024, to block an abortion rights initiative from the November ballot. In its complaint filed Thursday, Life Defense Fund alleged various wrongdoing by the measure’s supporters, as well as invalid signatures and fraud. The group seeks to disqualify or invalidate the initiative.
“The public should scrutinize Dakotan for Health’s comments and carefully consider its credibility. In the end, the Court will determine whether such unlawful conduct may result in the measure being included on the ballot,” Life Defense Fund attorney Sara Frankenstein said in an email Monday.Biden and Trump win Democratic, Republican elections in some of 2024’s last primary contests
The measure would bar the state from regulating “a pregnant woman’s abortion decision and its effectuation” in the first trimester, but it would allow second-trimester regulations “only in ways that are reasonably related to the physical health of the pregnant woman.”