Monday, April 10, 2006

Native Americans Resist South Dakota Abortion Ban


Filmmakers Chris Hume and L. Wild Horse travel to South Dakota, the state that recently passed a law banning all abortions, even in cases of rape and incest.

On the Pine Ridge Reservation, however, tribal president Cecelia Fire Thunder is taking a stand. She is invoking the Oglala Lakota tribe's status as a sovereign nation to surpass state law and building a family planning clinic on the reservation.

President Fire Thunder speaks with t r u t h o u t in this video exclusive, "Dispatch From South Dakota: Tribal President Cecelia Fire Thunder Speaks"�

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