Try as South Dakota and other theocracies might, they just can’t stop women from exercising their reproductive rights. The number of abortions in the United States has increased in the four years since the Supreme Court erased women’s right to control their bodies and what happens inside them.
Women in many states still struggle to exercise that right and suffer and die from post-Dobbs restrictions, but telemedicine and mifepristone and misoprostol have given women a lifeline that Dobbs can’t cut:
By December 2025, 29% of abortions were through telehealth.
…[B]ecause the mailing of abortion pills has become so widespread in the post-Dobbs era, abortion opponents may simply be unable to stop it.
…”We like to say the genie is out of the bottle,” said Elisa Wells, who co-founded and is the access director at Plan C, which provides information about accessing abortion pills online.
“Now that people know that they can get safe, fast, effective, affordable care through the mail, there’s no going back,” Wells said.
If mifepristone is restricted, many telehealth groups will immediately switch to using only misoprostol instead, they say.
Misoprostol is approved by the FDA to treat ulcers, and is also widely used off-label to manage miscarriages, induce labor and end pregnancies.
And while states could individually ban misoprostol, the FDA doesn’t typically regulate how a drug is used off-label, according to David Cohen, a law professor at Drexel University and national expert on abortion law.
“There would have to be some finding that it is not safe or effective for ulcer treatment, something that there’s no argument anyone could possibly show,” Cohen said.
…Other organizations are already directing patients to mifepristone from outside the U.S., through groups such as Aid Access and online pharmacies in places like India.
Even if the Trump administration tried to enforce the Comstock Act, an 1873 law that bans the mailing of obscene matter and anything intended to produce an abortion, it would be extremely difficult to stop the flow of pills, Cohen said.
“We’ve had the ‘War on Drugs’ for what, half a century, maybe longer?” he said. “And everyone, if they wanted, could find illegal drugs within minutes, and have it probably delivered to their doorstep within hours” [Kate Wells, “Despite State Bans, Abortions Have Almost Doubled. The Reason? Pills via Telehealth,” NPR.org, 2026.06.22].
Heavy-handed government regulation fails to stop the exercise of basic human rights—gee, you’d think true conservatives would be happy to hear that.
Cory, do you truly think that it is a basic human right to destroy
another human life? If you really think that, I don’t think
there is any hope for you.
6. No foetus in the United States has any civil rights. Republicans preach civil rights for human blastocysts but deny the protections of the First, Fourth and Ninth Amendments to people who enjoy cannabis.
If there is a divine creator why would It even care whether one of Its most destructive, malevolent and criminal creations chooses to restrict population growth? Republicans suffer from a disease that influences their eschatologies because they worship a supernatural extraterrestrial as the ‘son of god’ and believe It is coming to Earth to rule under a one-world government. $20 says no one can prove to this interested party that humanity is anything other than a force for utter destruction. Our species will be the instrument to extinguish all life on Earth and some divine thing cares whether we off ourselves? That anyone believes anybody can hold any moral high ground cements humanity’s doom.
Larry, you have given up. I said human right, not civil right.
11. One fifth of all pregnancies end in miscarriage or as some would call God working in mysterious ways but when a person with a free will chooses to terminate a pregnancy the creator doesn’t condone that decision? How does that work?
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham
@govmlg.bsky.social
Four years after Roe v. Wade was overturned, New Mexico continues to protect reproductive freedom.
Since 2021, we’ve protected patients and providers and created the nation’s first state-funded reproductive health hotline.
In 2024, 11,512 patients received abortion care in New Mexico.
Once again, as necessary, Edwin.
A fetus isn’t a human until it’s born and God blesses it with a Holy soul.
Porter, I would hold that human life begins when the
embryo attaches to the uterine wall and begins to grow. I realize that
some may disagree.
9. There is no foetal heartbeat until at least ten weeks into a pregnancy. What an ultrasound “hears” at six weeks are cells beginning to build a cardiac system entirely dependent on amniotic fluid produced by a person with actual civil rights!
@Edwin – You agree that different people believe differently about this subject.
What makes your opinion more important than Larry’s, or Cory’s, or O, or V or Scott?
Telling Cory he’s hopeless and telling Larry that he’s given up is signaling a need for your silence.
Why not pass a law on jerking off. While it may not be murder its halfway there. Right?
It would hit Republicans really hard since they are all holier than thou jerk offs.
To me, silence is giving up. To me, my position is supported both by
the Bible and by common sense.
When Larry says that our species will be the instrument that will
extinguish all life on earth, that says to me that he has given up.
Oh come on Mr. Arndt, common sense? So lets have 13 kids in every family. That’s nonsensical.
In our marriage we had a very late term and an extremely early term. Our second was ok basically because there was a great Neonatal doctor in the Yankton hospital. Our first was born in Aberdeen. My wife was to receive a C Section so she was bummed not to experience labor. She went into labor that night. She no longer regretted it and had the c section.
If you look up how many pregnancies reach full term. You realize if there is a God he wipes out more fetuses than anyone. That’s something to consider. The religious angle is fine, for you, not for me or mine. Although we never had an abortion didn’t need one. So we never had to think about it.
4. In South Dakota local control is Republican control and the demented legislature’s repeated attempts to restrict access to medical care are not only mean-spirited, they’re discriminatory anti-choice extremism.
5. “Pro-life” is simply code for white people breeding. Republicans drive the abolition of women’s rights because they’re wedded to the Great Replacement Hypothesis. But, African-Americans terminate pregnancies at about the same per capita rate as white people do but don’t take their jobs. Latinas, however, have fewer abortions per capita so the extreme white wing laments it’s hemorrhaging jobs to Latinos.
12. Medical necessity and reproductive freedoms are inalienable rights regardless of the religiosity of the few, only 1% of abortions occur in the third trimester and are performed for medical reasons such as foetal anomalies or maternal life endangerment.
There is a huge difference between medical necessity and reproductive freedom.
It seems to me that reproductive freedom means that we just can’t be
bothered with another life.
I don’t believe that God causes miscarriages. In a perfect sinless world there
would be no miscarriages. In the imperfect sinful world we live in a lot can
go wrong.
Enough.
10. States that ban from or punish women for tapping or going out of state for their medications or procedures is government overreach and are violating the Commerce Clause enumerated in the United States Constitution.
I created man and woman with original sin. Then I destroyed most of them for sinning. Then I impregnated a woman with myself as my child so that I could be born. Later I will kill myself as a sacrifice to myself to save all you from the sin I gave you in the first place. After my gruesome execution and resurrection I return to heaven and continue to create new souls in a state of Original Sin which requires baptism to get into heaven. And to round things off there’s also three of me.
Edwin, do you believe a woman should carry a dead baby until she dies of infection when we have the medical knowledge to save her life? I know a gal who recently went full term and had a still birth after it was induced. Why make a woman go through that when they knew 3 months earlier? It’s barbaric.
Do you believe a woman should let an ectopic pregnancy outside the womb and is not viable continue to grow until it explodes? My sister was saved from this death sentence in the 80’s for God’s sake.
Life starts when the baby breaths on its own. It’s modern-day religious fanatics that claim otherwise.
I have no problem with medically necessary abortions.
They are very rare.
Here is the study.
Abortion Bans and Pregnancy-Related Care Across Physician Specialties
A Qualitative Study
Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) has a worthy story to hear. Abortion is accessible to those who have connections and money but not the rest of us. Another way for “society” to discriminate openly against women.
I wonder how accessible erectile dysfunction meds are for men. Oh yeah, you can get them without a diagnosis, prescription and for free in some cases. Hmmmmm
Maybe God wanted these men to be nonperforming and non-fathers. God didn’t give men the right to control women, but he did give them compassion.
Way tooooo much testosterone in politics, civics, and religion. Women are losing rights and being squeezed out of open discussions. We need younger women to stand up now and fight like Amazons.
Great way to celebrate our 250th signing of the most important document that was read around the world. Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves. Women have the right to life, liberty and happiness just like men.