Last week, we wrote about Cecelia Fire Thunder’s courageous effort to open a reproductive health center on the Pine Ridge Reservation and the pending impeachment for her actions . For a variety of reasons — but mainly for women who will be denied access to cancer screenings, affordable birth control, abortion, and other care — we are extremely disapointed to report that Fire Thunder was “ousted” as president of the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council. A challenge is expected.

Fire Thunder, the tribe’s first woman president, was elected in 2004.