Article: South Dakota picks the middle ground; Voters signal a need for common ground on abortion.(NEWS)(Opinion Exchange)(Editorial)

There's one issue on which competing factions in South Dakota's abortion battle can agree: After two bitterly fought ballot initiatives over a near-complete ban, the state's residents are some of the best-informed voters anywhere on this divisive issue.

Since 2006, when the state's Legislature enacted sweeping limitations on the procedure, debate over the controversial law has dominated the state's airwaves and headlines. Groups supporting the ban and those opposing it correctly deduced that its implications reached far beyond South Dakota's borders. The law could have challenged the 1973 Supreme Court case that legalized abortion. And with new justices sitting ...

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