Four Pro-Choice Incumbent State Senators Lose in SD Primary Election

Conservative voters delivered a stinging rebuke in the Primary Electionon June 6 to four Republican South Dakota legislators who refused to support passage of the nation's strictest ban on abortion.
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Abortion arose as an issue in the South Dakota races after the Legislature this session passed a ban that sets the stage for a direct challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized the procedure. Max Wentz, a spokesman for the state Republican Party, said the abortion ban was certainly one of the issues that motivated voters in the South Dakota primary.

"South Dakota's a red state, and on Election Day, voters weren't afraid to vote conservative and vote Republican," Wentz said.

The senators who were defeated were among eight Republicans in the GOP-dominated state Senate who voted against the measure. [snip] Stateline.org