Both pro-life and pro-choice members are feeling a sense of achievement tonight after a federal appeals court decision .
A 2005 law passed by the South Dakota legislature has been changed.
Pro-life women are honoring one another Friday.
"A huge victory for women. A huge victory for pro-life movement," Unruh said.
Leslee Unruh, founder of the Alpha Center who was out at Lifelight with her cause Friday says this has been a long time coming.
"What we're working with is women who suffered because of abortion and have been lied to, have been coerced and so women now have freedom in South Dakota," Unruh said.
A federal appeals court now says doctors in South Dakota can tell a woman who wants an abortion that she has a relationship with her child and that relationship has legal protection.
But the court did knock down part the law. Now doctors can't tell patients an abortion increases the risk of suicide. This is something Alisha Sedor with Naral Pro-Choice South Dakota agrees with.
"We are disappointed in any decisions that still interfere with a woman and her doctor but we are glad that the court recognizes the unconstitutionality of requiring doctors to provide women with medically false information," Sedor said.
And Sedor says it's not a full win.
"We think that it's up to women to make these decisions for themselves and that women are informed and women do think about these things carefully and this is just placing the government between a women and her doctor," Sedor said.
But for those who are pro-life, today is worth celebrating.
"We're not going away, we're here and we're alive and well and just like the babies we save, we're still kicking," Unruh said.
Planned Parenthood sued the state after the 2005 law passed.
They issued a statement Friday: "Planned Parenthood has always stood for the right of women to make these decisions, and we are gratified by this result," president and CEO of Planned Parenthood in Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota Sarah Stoesz said.
South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley also issued a statement: "Today's decision supports the legislature's goal of encouraging women seeking an abortion to make informed and voluntary decisions."
