Governor Kristi Noem speaking with attendees at the 2020 Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. Via Wikimedia Commons.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) signed a bill into law this week that makes getting abortion pills harder, though core pieces of the legislation can’t be enacted because the state remains embroiled in a court battle over access to abortion.  

Noem signed House Bill 1318 Wednesday which will require women in South Dakota to make three separate trips to a doctor to receive the two pills necessary for a medication abortion starting in July. The bill also outlaws medical abortions through telemedicine and increases the penalty for the unlicensed practice of medicine when performing a medical abortion.  

Noem also signed a separate bill, HB 1113, which makes it a felony to coerce a woman into getting an abortion. 

Nationally, medication abortion accounted for 54 percent of U.S. abortions in 2020, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Abortion pills are becoming a growing resource for women in the U.S., accounting for only 6 percent of abortions in 2001 and jumping to 24 percent by 2011.   

Read more at The Hill.

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DonCarmine
DonCarmine
1 year ago

Thank you Mrs Nome for stoping the murderous abortions of the innocent lives being murdered by the same people that want you hanged for stepping on a bug.

Nannyb
Nannyb
1 year ago

Is the Left stone crazy??? If the US should abort all babies as they wish the women to do, in 30 or so years there will be no more younger population and thus the end of America. What idiots and disgusting people they all are. Get real people…America MUST keep the “right” in power from here on in. We have the greatest nation on the face of the earth and we cannot let thest idiots destroy her!! It worries me that Biden will succumb to his dementia and Harris will take over. OMG…what will become of our beloved country then?