{"id":252913,"date":"2021-09-09T15:49:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T20:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=252913"},"modified":"2021-09-09T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T20:22:09","slug":"south-dakota-governor-kristi-noem-abortion-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/south-dakota-governor-kristi-noem-abortion-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem issues executive order regarding abortion pill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem issued an executive order on Tuesday to regulate the distribution of the abortion pill, in a preemptive move to prevent the Biden administration from allowing mail-order abortion pill distribution in the state. She made it clear that the distribution of the abortion pill must follow the state law requiring an in-person consultation with an abortion provider.<\/p>\n

In her executive order, Noem told the South Dakota Department of Health to issue rules that the abortion pill can only be prescribed or dispensed by a state-licensed physician following an in-person exam, according to ABC News<\/a>. That law already exists, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has held that rule specifically for the abortion pill for more than two decades.<\/p>\n

However, under pressure<\/a> from the abortion industry, the FDA is now reconsidering its long-standing rule that is meant to protect women, and may allow the abortion pill to be distributed through the mail or virtual pharmacies, as has been the case during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is despite the fact that the abortion pill has been found to be four times more dangerous<\/a> than first-trimester surgical abortion. Noem’s order is a preemptive<\/a> attempt to prevent the abortion pill from being mailed to women in the event that the FDA removes the safety rule permanently.<\/p>\n

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“They are working right now to make it easier to end the life of an unborn child via telemedicine abortion,” said Noem in a statement. “That is not going to happen in South Dakota.”<\/p>\n