Journalism - Final Story - South Dakota Abortion Ban

A few of the flist expressed interest in reading my final news story for my Journalism class, the topic of which was the South Dakota ban on abortions.

Because I wasn't able to secure anyone for an in-person interview I had to rely on press statements, so I'm not sure I did anything to "advance the story" as my prof called it. Still, I'm pretty pleased overall, and I ran it by a friend who is the founder and editor of our school's progressive newspaper, and he only found one grammatical error and one suggested word-change, so I'm hoping that's a good sign for my future grades. If anything, it means I seem to have been a really good speller this morning.


( Abortion Ban in South Dakota, appx 850 words )

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I was not able to get an in-person interview, so I used a combination of press statements and text of the SD law to serve instead.

Citation:
-press statement: http://www.ppmns.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=gwKTJaN0JyF&b=303759&ct=2037901

-law: http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2006/bills/HB1215SST.htm

-census/population: http://www.areaconnect.com/population.htm?s=SD

-PPFA numbers: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/pp2/portal/files/portal/medicalinfo/abortion/fact-abortion-first-trimestert.xml

The above is not a complete list of my sources, but it's a list of the technical stuff I cited.

EDIT: Got a "B". Blegh.

"I do the job, and then I get paid," from a hypothetical discussion of what kind of assassin I'd be.

Any day that I get to use a Firefly quote in conversation is a good day.