SOUTH DAKOTA AND ABORTION: A LOCAL STORY ABOUT HOW RELIGION, MEDICAL SCIENCE, AND CULTURE MEET

Ann Milliken Pederson; Ann Milliken Pederson

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.2006.00809.x

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SOUTH DAKOTA AND ABORTION: A LOCAL STORY ABOUT HOW RELIGION, MEDICAL SCIENCE, AND CULTURE MEET

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Telling the tale about South Dakota's recent legislative ban on nearly all abortions gets messy, complicated, and dirty. There are no innocent subjects and no simple plot lines. The story reveals other stories underneath and over the top of the others. Stories counter stories, revealing who is in the know and who does the telling. To “tell the old, old story,” as the song goes, is not as simple as it may seem. Religion and medical science are caught in the politics and cultural wars about abortion.

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medicine, abortion, Donna Haraway, story, religion

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Pederson, A., (2007) “SOUTH DAKOTA AND ABORTION: A LOCAL STORY ABOUT HOW RELIGION, MEDICAL SCIENCE, AND CULTURE MEET”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 42(1), 123–132. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2006.00809.x

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Volume 42 • Issue 1 • March 2007

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Pages	123–132
Published on	2007-03-02

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