Republican Gov. Kristi Noem's order restricting the safe, effective pill is the latest in a wave of red states trying to make abortions dangerous.
the Republican governor declared that abortion pills may only be prescribed or dispensed by a doctor who is licensed in South Dakota after an in-person examination. The order also blocks people, including physicians and manufacturers, from providing abortion-inducing medication via courier, delivery, telemedicine or mail service.
Abortion-inducing medications are also no longer allowed to be provided in school or on state grounds, according to the order, which also directs the South Dakota Department of Health to develop licensing requirements for “pill only” abortion clinics. The department will also need to collect data on how often medication abortions are performed as a percentage of all abortions and enhance reporting requirements on emergency room complications supposedly related to medication abortions.
Medication abortion, known as the “abortion pill,” has been available in the U.S. since 2000, when the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of mifepristone for early nonsurgical abortion. Pregnant people normally get a medication abortion by taking a combination of mifepristone and misprostol ― usually spaced 24 hours apart ― which essentially induces a miscarriage.
Mifepristone is approved for use at up to 10 weeks of gestational age, though it is used safely off-label at later stages. The drug blocks progesterone receptors that are necessary to maintain a pregnancy. Medication abortion is successful 93% to 96% of the time,
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