South Dakota governor Kristi Noem issued an executive order to limit abortion access in her state following the historically-restrictive law signed in Texas last week.
The first-term Republican governor Tuesday signed a directive ordering the South Dakota Department of Health to create rules prohibiting the use of telemedicine in the process of terminating a pregnancy within the state and restricting when and how chemical abortion drugs are prescribed or provided.
The executive order bars physicians not licensed in South Dakota from prescribing abortion-inducing chemicals to someone, would make it illegal to deliver such products via courier, telemedicine or mail service, and prohibits abortion-inducing drugs from being dispensed or provided in schools or on state grounds.
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