Gov. Noem Announces Two Pro-Life Bills

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Gov. Noem Announces Two Pro-Life Bills

PIERRE, S.D. – Today, as tens of thousands of pro-life Americans participate in the annual March for Life in Washington, DC, Governor Kristi Noem announced the text of two pro-life bills to protect unborn lives. The first will ban abortions once a child’s heartbeat can be protected; the second will ban telemedicine abortions in South Dakota.

“Every human life is unique and beautiful from the moment it is conceived. Every life is worthy of our protection, worthy of the right to live,” said Governor Kristi Noem. “We hope that this year’s March for Life will be the last and that the Supreme Court will finally protect every unborn life. But until that comes to pass, these bills will ensure that both unborn children and their mothers are protected in South Dakota.”

Governor Noem previewed her heartbeat legislation last year when she directed her Unborn Child Advocate to review South Dakota laws and ensure that we have the strongest pro-life laws on the books in South Dakota.

Governor Noem blocked telemedicine abortions via executive order last year. This procedure happens when a woman is prescribed a pill to perform a chemical abortion over the phone or internet. Chemical abortions are a dangerous procedure that are four times more likely to cause the woman getting the abortion to end up in the emergency room.

Over the last decade, abortions have declined by approximately 80% in South Dakota. Last year, Governor Noem signed eight pro-life bills into law, including a ban on abortions based on a diagnosis of Down syndrome and a bill to protect children born alive, regardless of the circumstances of that child’s birth.

You can read the draft heartbeat legislation here. You can read the draft telemedicine abortion ban legislation here.

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11 thoughts on “Gov. Noem Announces Two Pro-Life Bills”

  2. If she cared about SD she’d be in state during session. This is just more primer for a quixotic 2024 bid.

  3. I don’t believe that the majority of South Dakotans support the killing of life though abortions, check your facts.

  4. if the majority supported abortion the Republicans would not have cancelled the Democrats.

    While many are in favor of legal abortion in situations where the mother’s life is in danger, that’s where they draw the line. The majority is opposed to abortion as a form of birth control.

    1. Agreed,
      There are very few circumstances that abortion is warranted. The problem is people use abortion as birth control. What people don’t understand is that it’s not the right to choose an abortion, but the right to choose when and how you have an “Adult” experience. People need to take responsibility for their actions one pregnant.

      1. yes an amazing number of people voted to keep abortion legal because of a misinformation campaign starring a very strange woman who was in ads declaring that if abortion were illegal in SD, she would not have been allowed to leave the state (I think she went to Cincinnati) for a procedure to separate the circulatory systems of twins with twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. It’s a tricky procedure, with about a 50-50 chance of saving both babies. The procedure is intended to save both children.
        She claimed that since the surgeons were unable to save one of her babies, that it was an abortion, although the pregnancy continued and resulted in the birth of a living child. So she appeared in advertising claiming that banning abortions in SD would have prevented her from leaving the state and attempting to save both babies, and both of her babies would have died.
        It was the craziest crock of BS imaginable, and it was very effective. People actually believed that pregnant women would be prohibited from leaving the state, and that a ban on abortion would lead to more babies dying because doctors would not be allowed to make attempts to save unborn children.

      3. BTW.

        One roe is overturned, we automatically become a non-abortion State.

        Are you smart enough to debate the Constitutionality of Roe?

  5. Yeah, I for one think the only reason to be glad abortions went down is if pregnancies went down. And for Noem’s specific laws, like her one last year making a woman carry a defective to term thqt she won’t be allowed to euthanize properly once it’s out? Not something I think is a good law.

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