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Advocates Pleased, Noem Disappointed In SCOTUS Decision On Louisiana Abortion Law

Gov. Kristi Noem

Governor Kristi Noem is unhappy with a new U.S. Supreme Court decision that rejects a requirement that doctors who perform abortions have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

She calls the Louisiana law “common sense” and says the work of her office “doesn’t stop until abortion is eliminated completely.”

Kristin Hayward is the manager of advocacy and development for Planned Parenthood in North and South Dakota, and Minnesota. She’s pleased and surprised by the decision.

Hayward says for states like South Dakota with just one facility that provides abortions, hospital admitting privileges for doctors would be complex.

“We fly in our doctors every week, in order to get the care for the women that is legally and constitutionally their right,” Hayward says. “That presents a pickle, already, too. So, if we would have had to do admitting privileges for them it would be another hoop for them to go through. It would be very costly and very time consuming.”

South Dakota has one of the strictest abortion statutes in the country.

Governor Kristi Noem has said she wants to sign the law that overturns Roe v. Wade.

Lee Strubinger is SDPB’s Rapid City-based politics and public policy reporter. Lee is a two-time national Edward R. Murrow Award winning reporter. He holds a master’s in public affairs reporting from the University of Illinois-Springfield.