SCOTUS Decision Triggers S.D. Abortion Ban: ‘We Have Prayed for This Day, and Now It’s Here,’ Gov. Noem Says

Abortion immediately became illegal in South Dakota on Thursday, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment does not confer a right to abortion and that the landmark Roe v. Wade decision is overturned.
South Dakota’s “trigger law,” passed in 2005, makes abortion illegal as soon as the Supreme Court rules that states can regulate all matters of abortion, which it did this morning, when it announced its rulings on two cases, one of which explicitly overturned the national right to abortion provided by Roe v. Wade.
The new state law prohibits abortion “unless there is appropriate and reasonable medical judgment that performance of an abortion is necessary to preserve the life of the pregnant female.” It also makes violation of the law a Class 6 felony.