Lawsuit challenges South Dakota’s new ban on abortion-pill advertising

By: Meghan O'Brien

Outlets: South Dakota Searchlight

Published: May 29, 2026

Words: 658

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 4 days ago

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South Dakota’s new law criminalizing the providing and advertising of abortion pills and other abortion-related items faces a lawsuit alleging the advertising prohibition is unconstitutional.

A New York-based nonprofit, Mayday Health, and a Democratic former South Dakota lawmaker, Nancy Turbak Berry, filed the lawsuit Friday in federal court against South Dakota’s Republican governor and attorney general.

The state’s Republican-dominated Legislature passed the bill in March, and Gov. Larry Rhoden signed it into law that …

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