One side tries new strategy in debate over abortion in South Dakota
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MN Star-Tribune: Today it's more clear that Stoesz and her allies in South Dakota may be at the leading edge of a bigger shift in the American mood -- a fatigue with extreme politics.... President Obama also appears to be walking that path. He has eased, but not eliminated, limits on stem-cell research and supported birth control as a way of reducing abortions, rather than banning them on moral grounds. "That reflects a new conversation and a new politics," Paris said. William Anderson, a political scientist at the University of South Dakota, said voters became engaged in morally complex questions. The anti-abortion side "assumed people would see this in black-and-white terms," he said. "But the grays were a lot grayer than anyone had ever imagined." Even now, a proposed law in North Dakota would give a fertilized egg the legal status of a person. Her strategy? Respect the moral conflicts that are at the core of the debate. It worked in South Dakota. "And if we can win in South Dakota, we can win anywhere," she said.
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