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South Dakota, 11/6/06

 Pro-choice movement never more energized 

By Mary Lou Greenberg

Signs have gone up in many places on the Pine Ridge Reservation: “Children Are Sacred. Vote Yes on 6” (the South Dakota abortion ban up for a vote in the Nov. 7 election).

In opposition, Indian opponents of the ban have been distributing beautiful posters with the image of a woman, “Women Are Sacred. Vote No on 6.”

A poem on the opposite side of the flyer-sized  poster reads:

Women Are Sacred

It has always been that women are sacred
our mothers are teachers of our ways.
Women take care of themselves,
our children, our elders
and we all take care of the family.
The state legislature is
trying to apply rigid restrictions
on decisions that are sacred.

All women deserve to be safe from violence and
all children deserve to be wanted.
Tell the legislature to promote comprehensive
sex ed in our schools, tell them to work to
reduce domestic violence, and sexual assault.
Tell them to feed the hungry children we see every day.

Vote no on 6 and tell our elected officials
to take care of families. Send a message to
the SD legislature that Lakota women and
their families can make their own difficult decisions.

Vote NO on Referred Law 6.

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