Mayday Health runs a website that provides various information about abortion pills. South Dakota law provides, in relevant part,
No person may knowingly dispense, distribute, sell, or advertise any of the following for purposes of an unlawful abortion pursuant to § 22-17-5.1:
[1] An article or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing an abortion; or
[2] An article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine, or thing that is advertised or described in a manner calculated to lead another to use or apply it for producing an abortion.
A violation of this section is a Class 6 felony….
Any person [other than the pregnant female herself -EV] who administers to any person or who prescribes or procures for any person any medicine, drug, or substance or uses or employs any instrument or other means with intent thereby to procure an abortion, unless there is appropriate and reasonable medical judgment that performance of an abortion is necessary to preserve the life of the pregnant female is guilty of a Class 6 felony.
Today's longish decision by Judge Camela Theeler (D.S.D.) in Mayday Health v. Rhoden issued a preliminary injunction blocking the enforcement of this law against Mayday Health; a few excerpts:
