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Oglala Sioux say “fuck you” to South Dakota and its anti-abortion laws.
The President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Cecilia Fire Thunder, was incensed. A former nurse and healthcare giver she was very angry that a state body made up mostly of white males, would make such a stupid law against women.
“To me, it is now a question of sovereignty,” she said to me last week. “I will personally establish a Planned Parenthood clinic on my own land which is within the boundaries of the Pine Ridge Reservation where the State of South Dakota has absolutely no jurisdiction.”
Hell yeah.
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Take that! Oi!
Comment by Brian/Buddy — March 22, 2006 @ 1:33 pm
Agreed: Hell Yeah!
Comment by Christine Taylor — March 28, 2006 @ 11:18 am