Sioux leader vows to open Planned Parenthood Clinic

Posted by Lindsay Beyerstein at 7:41 AM on March 23, 2006.

Choice and sovereignty in South Dakota.

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The leader of the Oglala Sioux plans to open a Planned Parenthood Clinic on her South Dakota reservation:

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.”

[Indianz.com]

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Lindsay Beyerstein a New York writer blogging at Majikthise.

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