Despite resounding defeat in the 2024 South Dakota election, the pro-abortion movement is already organizing another effort to legalize abortion on-demand in the state, promising it will be on the 2026 statewide ballot. Amendment G to legalize abortion up to birth was rejected by a 59%-41% margin on the November 2024 election ballot.
Petition gatherers for 2024’s Amendment G to legalize abortion up to birth in South Dakota were allegedly caught repeatedly lying to petition signers about the language and scope of the abortion amendment and using an accompanying petition for repeal of the state’s grocery sales tax in a bait-and-switch tactic to inflate total signatures. Signers who felt duped by these practices or had intended to sign only the grocery tax repeal lodged hundreds of complaints with the South Dakota Secretary of State’s office but were ignored by Secretary of State Monae Johnson.
Pierre attorney Nancy Turbak is heading the 2026 abortion legalization effort, which promises to again attract massive out-of-state interest and campaign donations despite 2024’s landslide loss.
Leah Bothamley, a homeless person living out of her car during part of the previous election cycle was employed as a main petition circulator for the 2024 Amendment G effort. Bothamley, a self-styled radical feminist activist known for her aggressively profane demeanor both in public and on social media also has a criminal record including arrests for drug possession and assault and convictions for drug possession. Bothamley has since relocated out of state.
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