Wed Jan 25, 2023 – 2:31 pm EST
PIERRE, South Dakota (LifeSiteNews) — South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem and Attorney General Marty Jackley reminded pharmacists in the state that it is illegal for them to distribute chemical abortion drugs.
The letter came after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) changed federal regulations to allow Walgreens, CVS, and other pharmacies to distribute the drugs, effectively turning each store into an abortion facility.
“Chemical abortions remain illegal in South Dakota,” the state’s leaders wrote in their letter on Jan. 24.
Pharmacies “are prohibited from procuring and dispensing abortion-inducing drugs with the intent to induce an abortion” and locations that do “are subject to felony prosecution under South Dakota law, despite the recent FDA ruling.”
“Their resources should be focused on helping mothers and their babies, both before birth and after,” the governor and attorney general wrote.
“All abortions, whether surgically or chemically induced, terminate the life of a living human being,” the letter concluded. “South Dakota will continue to enforce all laws including those that respect and protect the lives of the unborn. We trust pharmacists doing business in this state will take the same approach to respecting life.”
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