Pro-life activists in South Dakota are holding a public strategy session for this year's election campaign that will give voters another chance to tell Washington interests what they think of their attempts to influence the Midwestern state's abortion policies.

The nation's abortion industry assembled a massive campaign in 2006 to persuade South Dakota voters to reject a strict abortion ban that was intended to challenge the U.S. Supreme Court opinion Roe v. Wade that authorized the procedure across the nation.

But just weeks ago, the industry was jolted by a court ruling that another South Dakota law requiring abortionists to provide to possible patients scientific and accurate information about abortions. As a result, an abortionist scheduled to operate at a clinic in Sioux Falls failed to keep a series of appointments.

Teens wearing shirts in support of South Dakota's proposed abortion ban

Now the original abortion ban is being presented to voters again, modified slightly to include certain exceptions, and pro-life advocates are working to counteract the massive industry lobby once again being assembled to target South Dakota voters. They are holding a free teleconference and webcast tomorrow for a number of high-profile leaders to provide input and discuss how to give voters the truth about the state law and prevent the "lies and misinformation" from the abortion industry from influencing them.

"In just over 50 days, a simple majority of South Dakota voters will have the opportunity to decide the fate of the first law that has a very real chance of overturning the unjust Roe V. Wade Supreme Court decision that has resulted in the death of more than 50 million unborn American children," said Leslee Unruh, a longtime pro-life advocate who has been involved in the pro-life campaigns in the state.

"South Dakota is on the very of becoming the first state in American to pass a ban on abortion … but there's a big problem. In addition. to launching a massive multi-million-dollar media campaign – filled with lies and misinformation – Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry have brought in hired-gun political consultants who are using every trick in the book to try and kill this lifesaving law," she said.

The teleconference and webcast will feature participants including Dick Bott Sr., president of the Bott Radio Network; both Allen and Leslee Unruh of the VoteYesForLife.com campaign; David Bereit of the 40 Days for Life pro-life campaign; and Phil Burress of Citizens for Community Values.

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The abortion opponents note that the impetus for the opposition to the new Initiated Measure 11 is coming from Washington.

"The VoteYesForLife.com campaign is based in South Dakota and run by South Dakotans," the organization said. "It is clear that the national pro-abortion community is making their last stand in South Dakota by bringing in 'big guns' such as Cecile Richards, president of National Planned Parenthood, and leaders from National Abortion Rights Action League. The opposing campaign is shameless on their knees, begging for national help with this South Dakota law."

The VoteYesForLife campaign noted in 2006, voters, presented with a complete ban on abortions that already had been approved by their legislature, responded that they wanted certain exceptions.

"Initiated Measure 11 meets the demands to include these exceptions. This is a reasonable law requested by the people of South Dakota," the campaign said.

Nearly 60,000 voters in the state signed on in support of the plan when it was at the signature-gathering stage of the petition.

The teleconference launches at 8 p.m. Central Time and has limited space available. It also will be simulcast live with streaming audio on the Internet, officials said.

Activists in South Dakota previously reported their new state law requiring abortionists to inform women – before an abortion – that the procedure "will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being" apparently has done what no other pro-life protest has been able to accomplish – a shutdown at Planned Parenthood's abortion facility.

The day the federal court ruling affirming the South Dakota law took effect, pro-lifers gathered at the Sioux Falls Planned Parenthood business, as did several women who apparently had appointments.

However, a spokesman for the protest groups said no abortionists arrived and the women left after being counseled by the pro-lifer sidewalk counselors.

"I think Planned Parenthood cannot figure out a way not to comply with the law," Allan Unruh told WND at the time.

The law, endorsed by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, provides for penalties of up to two years in jail as well as loss of a medical license for abortionists who fail to follow its requirements.

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