If he chooses to sign it, we will be filing a lawsuit in short order to block it.

So disheartening and frustrating for those of us who are on the front lines.

This is a very real issue for a lot of people. That's the part I think the legislators don't quite understand.

This is an issue that is affecting real people's lives in this state and potentially around the country.

The women of South Dakota will still be able to access safe and legal abortion as this case works its way through the court system.

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

We fully intend to challenge this law. It's just a question of how.

While they are making political maneuvers, we're trying to fight for the women of South Dakota. I hate to envision the day when the women of South Dakota are treated differently than the women elsewhere when it comes to safe and legal health care.

There are links on there to Catholic Family Services, and there's nobody who's more political than the Catholic church in South Dakota.

Women in the western side of the state don't think about abortion until they need to, and then they're completely shocked that there's no way to receive that care unless they go to Sioux Falls.