Earlier in the day, the Associated Press wire informed me: Unanimous Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion medication. Mark Sherman reported:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago.
The nine justices ruled that abortion opponents lacked the legal right to sue over the federal Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the medication, mifepristone, and the FDA’s subsequent actions to ease access to it. The case had threatened to restrict access to mifepristone across the country, including in states where abortion remains legal.
Abortion is banned at all stages of pregnancy in 14 states, and after about six weeks of pregnancy in three others, often before women realize they’re pregnant. . . .
South Dakota is one of those states.
At the Dakota Scout, staff reports in Court ruling doesn't legalize abortion-inducing pills in South Dakota, AG says:
November vote could legalize mifepristone, other pregnancy terminating medications
A unanimous decision by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) Thursday rejecting an attempt to restrict access to mifepristone won’t change South Dakota’s existing ban on the abortion-inducing chemicals.
That’s according to South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley, who issued a statement following the 9-0 ruling by SCOTUS in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, brought by a group of anti-abortion doctors and medical associations who challenged Food and Drug Administration’s expanded access to mifepristone. The court ruled in favor of the FDA.
“The court’s decision does not change the current FDA rules, and state law on mifepristone remains the same,” Jackley said.
Jackley was among 21 other GOP attorneys general supporting the case. . . .
South Dakota abortion law makes it a Class 6 felony for anyone “who administers to any pregnant female or prescribes or procures for any pregnant female” a means for an abortion, except to save the life of the mother.
Proposed Constitutional Amendment G, which aims to make abortion in South Dakota legal and will appear on the November ballot, would legalize mifepristone if approved by voters.
Earlier this month, a SD News Watch poll indicated South Dakota abortion amendment held a nearly 20-point lead/
For now, as I posted last year, South Dakota women evade abortion ban by accessing medication in neighboring states
States Newsroom senior reporter Jennifer Shutt provides a deep dive in U.S. Supreme Court rejects attempt to limit access to abortion pill for the South Dakota Searchlight and Minnesota Reformer.
Abortion access is a different situation in the state of Minnesota, where the editorial board of the Minneapolis Star Tribune opines Abortion access: Safer, but not safe.
Photo: South Dakota law makes it a felony for doctors or pharmacists to provide medical abortion medicines to women in the state. In response, some women are traveling to other states to obtain the medication. Mifepristone, approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2000, is the first of a two-drug regimen for medication abortion. Photo: Michelle Mishina-Kunz, New York Times.
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- SD News Watch: SD women evade abortion ban by accessing medication in neighboring states
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