South Dakota authorities not happy with women getting abortion meds from other states

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/politics/2023/02/19/south-dakota-women-getting-abortion-meds-from-other-states/69898998007/

The border between Republican-led South Dakota and Democratic-controlled Minnesota has become a firing line in the national clash over abortion rights, with online doctor visits and mail-order prescriptions blurring the lines of state sovereignty and the reach of law enforcement.

On one side is South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who presides over some of the nation’s strictest abortion laws and is a fierce opponent of medication abortion, a process that has become increasingly common since 2000, when the main pill, mifepristone, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Medication abortion currently accounts for 54% of abortions in the United States, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health organization.

On the other side is Julie Amaon, medical director of Just the Pill, a Twin Cities telemedicine abortion provider that helped 110 South Dakota residents in 2022 with online consultations and prescriptions for abortion medication. The patients cross the border for a consultation on their phone and receive a tracking number for their medication, which they pick up a few days later and then return to South Dakota to take the pills.

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South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley told News Watch that his office is monitoring the situation and that he expects South Dakota laws to be followed.

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Asked if someone providing telemedicine abortion services to South Dakota residents in a different state could be prosecuted in South Dakota, Jackley said that could happen, but he hopes the situation doesn’t escalate to that point.

“South Dakota law very clearly prohibits someone from procuring and dispensing abortion-inducing drugs,” he said. “If you aid and abet or you conspire or you actively participate in a criminal act, our reach can go beyond the state’s borders. Obviously, we don’t want to do that, but we’ve made our stance pretty clear.”

[MagickMuffin]

1. So, women are gonna be forbidden to travel to other states

Seems like suppression and oppression has flooded every state that thinks women don’t have rights over their own bodies!

Yet, guns reigns supreme. More rights than women and children

[Irish_Dem]

2. But men will never be punished for crossing state lines to buy assault rifles.

[Zambero]

3. Lib-owning liberty limiters

Orwell's vision of the future was not too far off.

[MOMFUDSKI]

4. . . . With

Liberty and Justice for All . . .

[Phoenix61]

5. Seems he's confused about how that works.

I’m in Florida where recreational pot is illegal. If I travel to a state where it’s legal and I toke 24/7 there ain’t jack Florida can do about it. If I carry it across the state line that will be a problem but only because it’s illegal on the national level. Mifepristone is legal on the national level so I don’t see what he can possibly do about it. He has no more authority over the doctor than the state of Florida has over the person I bought weed from in Cali.