The Pro-Choice group NARAL is striking back at the Bush Administration. With the recent attacks on women's right to choose, the WaPo reported last week the Bush Administration has given anti-choice "crisis pregnancy centers" (CPCs), created to dissuade women from exercising their right to choose, over $60 million in taxpayer dollars. These organizations often advertise under 'abortion services' in the yellow pages, even though they don’t offer this health care.

A Native American Tribe in South Dakota vows to build a Planned Parenthood clinic on their own sovereign land in protest of the ban on abortions in that state. The President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Cecilia Fire Thunder, was incensed. A former nurse and healthcare giver she was very angry that a state body made up mostly of white males, would make such a stupid law against women.

“To me, it is now a question of sovereignty,� she said to me last week. “I will personally establish a Planned Parenthood clinic on my own land which is within the boundaries of the Pine Ridge Reservation where the State of South Dakota has absolutely no jurisdiction.�

Finally looks like Native Americans are going to make the government sorry for not just running Indians off a cliff when they had a chance.