South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) signed an executive order on Tuesday that bans the prescription of abortion pills through telemedicine — a move that comes days after she proposed tightening abortion restrictions in her state following the Supreme Court’s decision allowing Texas’ ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy to stand.
Sorry, but if “off-label” prescribing can allow horse-dewormer for COVID, then “off-label” prescribing can also allow abortifacients for, ummmm, “cramps.”
BTCH…She should have her woman card revoked.
I’d guess Governor Noem has tired of just killing her state’s citizens with covid and had to come up with a new way of bringing misery to them.
Fresh, new initiatives help her sustain her interest in the job, you know.
I’m hoping that this GQP overreach has the effect of turning out women in droves in the midterms so that Democrats retain the House & Senate – and maybe getting the Senate to 51 or 52 so we can ignore Manchin & Sinema.
It is getting way past the point of hypocrisy regarding an individual’s freedom to make personal choices and the need for cooperation for societal responsibility. A current medical concern is the fight over mask/vaccine mandates versus the fight of abortion. In one case the argument is that one has a First Amendment right to decide whether to mask or vaccinate and in the other is that one has the right to tell women that they have no right to make a reproductive decision. These two positions are totally illogical and irrational. This is not the only case of such inconsistency.
Fixed.
Maybe in its place, they can abort Covid.
One of the pundits mentioned the other day that young woman have never lived in a time when abortion was illegal, not available in all 50 states. Some have opined that this is the same thing as the youngsters not having any experience with measles, mumps, chicken pox, and for some of us polio.
But the other part of this is how can a governor nix pharmaceutical sales in their state? I mean if she can prevent doctor via telemedicine for prescribing abortion pills, will then doesn’t she have the power to nix vaccines in general in her state?
I believe the TX law hinged on the state set a limit, but they weren’t going after the women who wanted them, they just set the vigilantes on the woman. But here as Gov she’s stating that doctors can’t doctor, some medicines are not allowed, and is downright interfering with commerce.
And in an executive order! Not even state legislation!
Where’s the GQP complaining about executive overreach now?
Clearly Noem and Abbott have aspirations for 2024. It should be a fun Primary.
… like repetitive puking till my insides hurt kind of fun?
Birth control pills that prevent the implantation of fertilized eggs are next.
Her AG might have a few creative ideas in that line.
Interesting how Noem only has 3 children. She must be very chaste.
Noem is in hot competition with the boyz from TX and FL for the Trumpie award and so the race to the cruel rancid bottom continues.
Did I mention the incoming and inevitable widespread violence?
She can’t stop it. Besides the obvious lawsuits coming,
courier, delivery, telemedicine and mail services are banned from providing drugs that induce abortions.
cannot be “banned” (not a legal term, am I right?) or stopped since the USPS or other delivery has no idea what is in the package. Before ACA, I got my drugs “prescribed by a physician in my state” cheaper from Canada or India, and they came in an unassuming box.
Noem is grandstanding as usual.
Apologies to the sane people in Texas and SD, but this is good for us. Let them all do it and have the SC give its blessing. Voting rights, abortion rights, what’s next? Education, environment? Let them overreach until they fall on their stupid white faces.
Just like the medicine for males that is advertised on the TV machine. And incontinent products for both sexes.