State issues cease-anddesist to national nonprofit sponsoring abortion pill ads

Group says it’s engaging in protected speech, meanwhile, ads don’t appear to be posted at several intended locations
  • South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley speaks during a launch event for his U.S. House campaign on Sept. 9, at the Loud American in Sturgis. Reporter & Farmer | Seth Tupper, South Dakota Searchlight
    South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley speaks during a launch event for his U.S. House campaign on Sept. 9, at the Loud American in Sturgis. Reporter & Farmer | Seth Tupper, South Dakota Searchlight

    South Dakota’s Republican attorney general is threatening a lawsuit and ordering a national nonprofit to cease and desist “the deceptive advertising of the sale of abortion pills in South Dakota,” but the organization is not signaling that it will stop its advertising campaign.

    The ads ask “Pregnant? Don’t want to be?” and provide a link to the website of Mayday Health, a New York-based nonprofit t…