People associated with the Life Defense Fund protest outside a Sioux Falls library on May 1, 2024, as an abortion-rights group conducts a press conference inside. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight)
Some South Dakota voters who rejected abortion bans in 2006 and 2008 probably didn’t know there was already a trigger law in place that would end up banning abortion in 2022.
Lee Strubinger puts that hindsight to use in a new podcast, “ Unplanned Democracy .” It examines South Dakota’s journey from those elections to this year’s vote on Amendment G , which would restore abortion rights. The measure is on the Nov. 5 ballot.
‘Unplanned Democracy’
The new podcast is available now on SDPB’s website and from various podcast platforms.
Strubinger is a politics and public policy reporter for South Dakota Public Broadcasting. He reported, wrote and produced the “Unplanned Democracy” podcast, which is narrated by Jackie Hendry, host of SDPB’s “South Dakota Focus.”