Top 10 Ballot Measures

While South Dakota already boasts some of the strictest abortion limits in the country and only one abortion clinic, pro-life advocates are championing a proposal on the Nov. 4 ballot that would ban abortions outright, with narrow exceptions in cases involving a danger to the health of the mother, rape and incest. In 2006, a slightly more restrictive ban was rejected by South Dakota voters 56% to 44%. Other abortion-related items are up for consideration in California — on a proposition to require parental notification before a minor gets an abortion — and in Colorado — on a proposal to define the moment of conception as the beginning of a "person."