The Issues Around Amendment G May Be Discussed in the 2025 Legislature

PIERRE S.D. (MITCHELLNOW) South Dakota voters resoundingly defeated Amendment G on abortion last week, but that doesn’t mean the debate is over.

Dr. Patti Giebink formed Doctors for Dakotans to help defeat the amendment.  As an OBGYN with 30 years of practice, she performed abortions for Planned Parenthood.  Dr. Giebink believes the legislature will take up the issue again to consider potential exceptions to the state’s abortion ban that’s currently in place.

The opponents of Amendment G acknowledged in their television advertisements that South Dakota’s abortion laws may need modifying.  In South Dakota, abortion is allowed only in cases of the life of the mother and for no other reason.  Women and girls who have been raped and/or victims of incest have no alternative but to carry to term.  Abortions as a medical procedure are not allowed either.  For example, on occasion a woman is pregnant in a multiple birth situation where a selective reduction abortion is necessary to save the other fetus or fetuses in the womb.

The next session of the Legislature, which will be the 100^th in South Dakota history, begins on January 14, 2025.