However, Lynne Valenti, a deputy secretary for the Department of Health, called medication-induced abortions вЂњa potentially dangerous procedure that is ending the life of an unborn child.вЂќ That would hurt the Department of HealthвЂ™s goal of вЂњprotecting the health and safety of South Dakotans,вЂќ Traxler argued, as well as create an unconstitutional violation of the right to an abortion. She added that the FDA has acknowledged complications are вЂњextremely rare,вЂќ but that the proposed rule makes it more likely that patients wouldnвЂ™t be able to return to Planned ParenthoodвЂ™s clinic - the stateвЂ™s lone abortion clinic - to take the second drug. Sarah Traxler, the chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood North Central States, wrote in a letter to the Department of Health. вЂњMedication abortion is incredibly safe and effective,вЂќ Dr. In South Dakota, roughly one-third of abortions have been performed with drugs in recent years.

Her executive order came amid the Food and Drug Administration permanently eliminating a long-standing requirement that women pick up abortion medication in person. Noem has made it clear she wants abortion eventually outlawed. Wade, the 1973 decision that established a nationwide right to an abortion, it has spurred a flurry of state-by-state skirmishes over abortion access. As the Supreme Court has reexamined Roe v. The Republican governor initiated the rules change through an executive order, arguing that restrictions on abortion pills are necessary for the safety of women. South DakotaвЂ™s rules proposal has been decried by abortion-rights advocates as unconstitutional and an overreach of the governorвЂ™s executive power. Only Texas has an earlier ban on abortion medication, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights. The state Department of HealthвЂ™s proposed rule would add further requirements for women to get abortion pills, including requiring them to visit a doctor a third time and be within their first nine weeks of pregnancy. Kristi Noem is pushing new rules for medicine-induced abortions that would be among the most restrictive in the country, but a legislative committee on Monday withheld its approval until it can get more information on the proposal.

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