Sunday,  October 21, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 96 • 28 of 46 •  Other Editions

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Northern Iowa defeats South Dakota State 27-6

• CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) -- Sawyer Kollmorgen threw for 187 yards and two touchdowns as Northern Iowa tripped up Missouri Valley Conference-leading South

Dakota State with a 27-6 victory on Saturday night.
• David Johnson rushed for 121 yards and a touchdown on 27 carries for the Panthers (2-5, 1-3).
• Zach Zenner, who entered Saturday the top rusher in the FCS with 1,248 yards this season (208 a game), had 112 yards in 20 carries for the Jackrabbits (5-2, 3-1).
• South Dakota State managed just two field goals by Justin Syrovatka.
• Kollmorgen threw a 40-yard touchdown pass to Sam Rohr in the first quarter and added a 16-yard scoring toss to Brett LeMaster in the second period.

Dozens of states make it hard to get abortions
LINDSEY TANNER,AP Medical Writer

• CHICAGO (AP) -- It's legal to get an abortion in America, but in many places it is hard and getting harder.
• Just this year, 17 states set new limits on abortion; 24 did last year, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion rights nonprofit whose numbers are widely respected. In several states with the most restrictive laws, the number of abortions has fallen slightly, pleasing abortion opponents who say the laws are working.
• Some of the states with the toughest laws are spread across a big middle swath of the country, stretching from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
• In South Dakota, which has just one abortion clinic, lawmakers want to extend the required waiting period from two days to three for women seeking to end a pregnancy. Next door in North Dakota, there's only one clinic. The same is true in Mississippi, where a new law threatens that lone clinic's existence. In several states, doctors now must warn women about purported risks from abortion that most scientists reject.
• There are hurdles even in states like Illinois, where abortion laws are more lenient and clinics relatively plentiful.
• Patients arriving for abortions at a Granite City, Ill., clinic can expect to find their photographs on an anti-abortion activist's website. And before her abortion in June, a Chicago woman says her own gynecologist refused to offer any advice, fearing

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