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Sioux Tribal President To Offer Abortion Clinic In South Dakota

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Via Warren Ellis:

This is a sort of exciting development in the South Dakota abortion story. The president of the Oglala Sioux tribe of South Dakota, Cecilia Fire Thunder, is so upset that she has stated she intends to set up a Planned Parenthood clinic upon her personal land within the boudries of the reservation where South Dakota’s government has no jurisdiction. Pretty cool.

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