Pro-Life Rule Blocking Telemedicine Abortions Approved
PIERRE, S.D. – Today, Governor Kristi Noem and the Department of Health’s rule blocking telemedicine abortions was approved by the South Dakota Legislature’s Interim Rules Review Committee.
“Chemical abortions are four times as likely to cause a woman getting an abortion to end up in an emergency room – and we have a duty to protect the lives of those women,” said Governor Noem. “I look forward to the day when the life of every unborn child is protected in South Dakota. Until then, South Dakotans will know that if a mother uses abortion pills to end her unborn child’s life, she will not get those pills from a stranger over the internet.”
In September, Governor Noem signed Executive Order 2021-12, directing the South Dakota Department of Health to establish rules preventing telemedicine abortions in South Dakota. The rule does the following:
- Requires that no medical abortion by use of mifepristone and misopristol take place except in a licensed abortion facility, with an observation period;
- Requires in-office visits for the taking of the mifepristone and separately for the misopristol. This provision makes South Dakota the only state in the nation to protect the life of the mother to this extent;
- Ensures that South Dakota law is properly followed by requiring that the mother be informed that, after administration of the mifepristone, it is possible to rescue the unborn child and stop the abortion from occurring; and
- Requires abortion facilities collect and maintain certain information.
Governor Noem plans to work with the South Dakota legislature to pass legislation that makes these and other protocols permanent in the 2022 legislative session.
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Many thanks to Governor Noem and her team, as well as the four legislators who voted today in support of Life: Representative Hansen, Senator Hunhoff, Representative Kevin Jensen, and Senator Tim Johns. To the best of my knowledge, South Dakota is the most protective state in the nation on this issue.
Imagine if you spent as much energy protecting the people who have a voice, can vote, and respond to your BS! The unborn are such a great crowd to tailor your work towards, they don’t ask for anything, they are innocent, and no race really known. You the best Freddie!
“she will not get those pills from a stranger over the internet.”
Where do you think they’ll come from then? Lol. When you restrict access to something you create a black market, duh.
And since when have you felt a duty to protect the lives of women? Why start now? Or is this all just performative politics?
Stop! I can only take so much freedom! Data, facts, science, freedom! We have so much of it here and the governor never tries to take it away!
if the portrayal of a drug-induced abortion in the movie “Unplanned” was accurate, it’s not surprising so many woman undergoing this end up in hospital emergency rooms. It is apparently extremely painful, bloody, and there is the potential it won’t completely work.
An “incomplete abortion” can be a life-threatening event and can require a D&C to stop the bleeding.
If something goes wrong during that procedure, like perforation of the uterus necessitating a hysterectomy, the patient will sue everybody she came in contact with, because that’s how medical malpractice lawsuits work.
So a woman arrives at the hospital ED hemorrhaging and in terrible pain, and the poor suckers who just happen to be on duty in the ER are set up to get sued for the loss of her uterus.
This goes back to the idea of requiring g abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a local hospital, so they can fix their own mistakes.
The trouble with pregnancy is that many women have trouble knowing for sure how long they have been pregnant. This may come as a surprise to many men, who don’t know that many women have irregular cycles.
Even with a pelvic exam, some doctors can only guess how far along a pregnancy is. If the doctor only sees the patient on his computer monitor, he has no idea how far along the pregnancy is, or if she is even pregnant at all, because he has not examined her. It could be a molar or ectopic pregnancy, or even ovarian cancer.
There are some medical conditions which cannot be properly diagnosed over a zoom call. And without an actual physical exam, no doctor should be prescribing powerful drugs to treat any of them.