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Native American women may face more hardships should Roe be overturned
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Professional-choice advocates say overturning Roe v. Wade would place better pressure and hardship on Native American ladies in South Dakota, who’re twice as probably as different races to be the victims of sexual assault, in accordance with the U.S. Division of Justice.
Overturning the landmark abortion determination — as leaked paperwork point out could also be on the horizon — would exacerbate longstanding reservation considerations about lack of enough well being care and reproductive providers for Native ladies in a state with an Indigenous inhabitants of 9 p.c.
Based on the 2021 U.S. Census Bureau, Native American female-led households with kids had the very best poverty fee within the nation, with greater than two in 5 (43 p.c) dwelling in poverty. A lack of economic sources could make it tougher for Native ladies to journey or get healthcare assist if they’ve to depart South Dakota to get the process.
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Charon Asetoyer, govt director of the Native American Ladies’s Well being Training Useful resource Heart on the Yankton Sioux Reservation, stated that even beneath the state’s present authorized panorama, getting an abortion in South Dakota is already “virtually not possible” for a lot of Native ladies resulting from restrictive actions taken by Gov. Kristi Noem and the state’s Republican-dominated Legislature.
‘Politicians in Pierre … haven’t any compassion for ladies’
With Indian Well being Service clinics restricted by the Hyde Modification, which prohibits utilizing federal cash for abortions usually, Native ladies should journey to the state’s solely abortion clinic on the Deliberate Parenthood in Sioux Falls for a number of visits separated by a 72-hour ready interval, with public funding prohibited until the mom’s life is in peril.
“It’s very difficult for ladies coming from a whole lot of miles away, and naturally that’s the purpose,” stated Asetoyer, who based the Lake Andes-based useful resource middle in 1988. “You’re speaking about politicians in Pierre who haven’t any compassion for ladies, they usually wish to make issues as tough as potential for us to have entry to well being care sources.”
Abortions are carried out solely two or three days a month at one location in South Dakota — the Deliberate Parenthood clinic in Sioux Falls, which additionally offers a variety of different reproductive-related providers. Medical doctors who carry out abortions have to be flown into South Dakota from neighboring states as a result of there aren’t any native suppliers.
One development that might make issues simpler is remedy abortion – a mixture of two capsules that may be prescribed within the first 10 weeks of being pregnant, which presently comprise greater than half of all abortions nationally. Noem signed a legislation mandating three journeys to a clinic – two for the doses and one follow-up appointment. That doesn’t enable ladies to obtain the capsules by mail from licensed prescribers or pharmacies, utilizing physician consultations by way of video or telephone as wanted, a course of authorised by the Meals and Drug Administration final December.
Extra:Deliberate Parenthood expects abortion to develop into unlawful in South Dakota, North Dakota, officers say
U.S. District Decide Karen Schreier granted a preliminary injunction to pause South Dakota’s legislative motion on medicated abortion, ruling that plaintiff Deliberate Parenthood “has proven that the private, monetary, and logistical obstacles concerned in touring to the clinic for 3 separate appointments at regulated time intervals quantities to a considerable impediment for an individual in search of a drugs abortion.”
That case may very well be rendered moot this summer time, when the Supreme Courtroom guidelines on a Mississippi abortion ban with Roe v. Wade hanging within the stability. A leaked draft opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito sparked hypothesis that the court docket was leaning towards ending the federal constitutional safety of abortion rights, triggering a legislative ban courting again to 2006 in South Dakota that might make all abortions unlawful.
Extra:Here is how South Dakota’s abortion stance may paved the way for a post-Roe America
Touring to different states not potential for a lot of
Choices that is perhaps obtainable to some ladies, similar to touring to a state the place abortions are nonetheless authorized, are a unique matter for a lot of on the reservation, positioned in among the poorest counties (Ziebach, Buffalo, Todd, Oglala Lakota) in the USA.
“Most of these bans goal individuals of colour most importantly, particularly in a state this rural with massive distances to journey and no social security web,” stated Kristin Hayward, supervisor of advocacy and improvement for Deliberate Parenthood in Sioux Falls.
The notion of tribal sovereignty has been raised in relation to abortion rights in South Dakota, with out a lot traction. Cecilia Hearth Thunder, the primary girl elected president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, introduced plans to begin a Deliberate Parenthood clinic on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 2006, an effort to withstand anti-abortion efforts within the state legislature. She was impeached later that 12 months by the tribal council, which accused her of performing with out tribal consent.
Extra:South Dakota Republicans rejoice report that Roe v. Wade, abortion protections going away
Asetoyer, a former member of the Nationwide Advisory Council for Well being and Human Providers, dismissed the thought of utilizing tribal legislation and sovereignty to protect Native American ladies from federal and state abortion restrictions. “Tribal governments aren’t going to get entangled within the subject,” she stated. “The church buildings have had too large of an affect. It’s thought of too radical.”
The battle have to be fought by advocacy and state and native elections, she stated, a frightening problem for pro-choice advocates in a state the place efforts to limit reproductive rights had been occurring lengthy earlier than information broke of the potential finish to Roe v. Wade protections.
“Roe has not been in the usual in South Dakota for a few years,” stated Hayward.
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Videos: Gundy, Players Recap Win against South Dakota State
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STILLWATER — The Oklahoma State football team beat South Dakota State 44-20 on Saturday to start the season 1-0. After the game, Mike Gundy, Ollie Gordon, Alan Bowman, De’Zhaun Stribling, Collin Oliver, Korie Black and Trey Rucker met with reporters to recap the game.
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South Dakota State vs. No. 17 Oklahoma State live stream (8/31/24): Watch college football, Week 1 online
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The South Dakota State Jackrabbits face the No. 17 Oklahoma State Cowboys on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024 (8/31/24) at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Fans can watch the game with a subscription to ESPN+.
Here’s what you need to know:
What: NCAA Football, Week 1
Who: South Dakota State vs. Oklahoma State
When: Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024 (8/31/24)
Where: Boone Pickens Stadium
Time: 2 p.m. ET
TV: N/A
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Live stream: ESPN+
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Here’s a college football story from the Associated Press:
Y’all ain’t played nobody!
It might as well be college football’s slogan. Debates about strength of schedule are part of the fabric of the sport, like marching bands, cheerleaders and tailgating.
With the size of the College Football Playoff tripling in size from four teams to 12 this season — including seven at-large bids — expect the arguments over the relative difficulty of teams’ schedules to increase exponentially.
The posturing and politicking has already begun.
“This is the NFL of college football in my mind,” Nebraska coach Matt Rhule said during Big Ten media days. At Southeastern Conference media days, the NFL was also invoked when the topic steered to schedules.
“As coaches we want to play the best. People forget that when you’ve spent time in the NFL, every week was like that,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said. “So when Texas and Oklahoma came into the conference, every schedule was going to get harder.”
The debates aren’t just about which conferences are the best. With super-sized conferences of 16-18 teams, the differences in strength of schedule within leagues can be significant.
The CFP selection committee uses a strength-of-schedule rating provided by SportSource Analytics that includes components such as wins and losses, scoring differential and game location.
Balancing who you played with how you played will be harder than ever.
“There’s a weight on the committee that’s new. I want to see how the committee processes that,” SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said during spring meetings. “And my encouragement is that this, ‘Well, we have an undefeated team so they’re in’ is not the standard. It never was the standard. Obviously, that stirred up controversy last year.”
Toughest schedules in the Power Four
There are dozens of data-based rating systems to measure the relative strength of college football teams, and all have some type of schedule-rating component.
The AP took three systems — ESPN’s SP+, FEI and KFord Ratings — and averaged their strength of schedule rankings for all 134 Bowl Subdivision teams to determine where each Power Four team’s schedule ranks nationally (all games, not just conference games, are factored in).
Using those projections, SEC teams on average will be facing the toughest schedules this season.
The average strength-of-schedule ranking among the 16 SEC teams is 11.2, from Florida (a unanimous No. 1 among all three systems) to Missouri at 36.7.
Half the teams in the SEC have schedules with an average national ranking of 10 or better, including No. 1 Georgia at 3.7. No. 11 Missouri is the only SEC team with an average schedule-strength ranking below 25.3.
Rating the rest
The Big Ten, now including Southern California, UCLA, Oregon and Washington, is next with an average strength-of-schedule ranking of 26.9 among its 18 teams.
Purdue’s 7.7 average ranking is the highest followed by No. 23 USC at 9. Big Ten favorite No. 2 Ohio State’s average is 34. No. 3 Oregon’s is 26.7.
The ACC and Big 12 are about the same. The 17-team ACC has an average strength of schedule ranking of 49.9. The 16-team Big 12′s average ranking is 47.3.
Assessing strength of schedule
Straight up rankings can be deceiving. How to quantify the difference between facing the sixth-ranked schedule and 26th?
Brian Fremeau, the creator of FEI, does it three ways, asking three questions: How many games would an elite team lose facing a particular schedule? How many would a good team lose? How many would an average team lose?
AP used FEI’s strength of schedule ratings based on good teams in its composite rankings, since good teams are going to be the ones in the CFP race.
Based on FEI projections, the difference between playing Georgia’s schedule (rated 3.4 among the hardest in the nation) and Ohio State (34) is about one more loss for a good team against the Bulldogs’ slate. The difference between Alabama’s schedule and Big 12 favorite Utah’s is about two losses for a good team against the Tide’s.
If these schedule strength projections held — they will change throughout the season — it would then be reasonable to compare an 11-1 Utah to a 9-3 Alabama.
Reasonable to compare doesn’t necessarily mean the one with the tougher schedule should automatically be ranked higher.
“I don’t judge a team on its schedule. I judge a team on how it performs against a schedule, or my system does. And that is a little more of a nuanced take then, ‘Well, we played a tougher set of opponents than you did, therefore, we’re better,’” Fremeau said. “There’s a bit of a balancing act between the two.”
Intraconference debates
The SEC and Big Ten are both bigger and division-less for the first time. That necessitated new tiebreaker procedures to determine which teams qualify for conference title games featuring the top two teams in the standings.
Within the guidelines is an acknowledgment that the rigor of conference schedules will vary when teams are playing barely half the league. After head-to-head and record vs. common opponents are used to break ties, both leagues go to results that favor the team that fared better against the better conference opponents they play.
The ACC, a year ahead of the the SEC and Big Ten in abandoning divisions, has a similar nod within its tiebreakers to strength of schedule.
ACC Associate Commissioner Michael Strickland said the conference used 10 years of data that measures the success of its football teams to help create a new schedule rotation that would be competitively balanced. But the ACC also to had weigh travel now that Stanford, California and SMU are members, as well as protecting some traditional annual rivalries.
The ACC’s fourth two-team tiebreaker is combined winning percentage of conference opponents.
“Our head football coaches suggested that we insert that during our review process,” Strickland said.
The CFP choices
The CFP field announced Dec. 8 will be comprised of the five highest-ranked conference champions, regardless of league, and seven at-large selections. There is no limit to the number of at-large bids a conference can receive.
The most interesting comparisons for the CFP selection committee might end up being between the many conference rivals that do not play each other in the regular season.
What to do with a 10-2 Missouri and a 9-3 Alabama (composite strength-of-schedule ranking, 9.3)? Or Iowa (37) at 10-2 and Michigan (16) at 9-3? Over in the ACC, what would happen while assessing a 10-2 Virginia Tech (68) and a 9-3 Florida State (30.3)?
“Especially when we’re picking (seven) teams now, we’re looking at the loss column with a bit more scrutiny,” Fremeau said. “They’re going to be debating teams like that with a one or possibly two-game difference in record, but a comparable difference in expected schedule rating and they’re going to have that debate about which one they value more.”
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)
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