( CNN ) -- A new South Dakota law requiring a woman to get counseling at a `` pregnancy help center '' and wait 72 hours after a physician assessment before having an abortion appears destined for a legal challenge . Law opponents say the waiting period would be the longest in the nation . Gov . Dennis Daugaard , who signed House Bill 1217 on Tuesday , is anticipating such a move . The restrictive bill 's prime sponsor , Rep. Roger Hunt , has pledged to raise private funds to help finance any needed defense , Daugaard said in a statement . `` I think everyone agrees with the goal of reducing abortion by encouraging consideration of other alternatives , '' Daugaard . `` I hope that women who are considering an abortion will use this three-day period to make good choices . '' The law , which also requires the woman to receive counseling at a `` pregnancy help center , '' is currently scheduled to take effect July 1 . But the American Civil Liberties Union and a regional office of Planned Parenthood said they will file a lawsuit to stop the law . `` Planned Parenthood 's legal team has determined that this bill is such an egregious violation of the Constitution , that we will file suit if the governor signs it , '' said the Planned Parenthood office for Minnesota , North Dakota and South Dakota before Daugaard 's action . `` The law also purports to ensure that women are 'informed ' before consenting to an abortion , but actually imposes requirements that are both impossible to meet and require physicians to flood their patients with false and misleading information , '' the group said in a statement . Chris Hupke , head of South Dakota 's Family Policy Council , told CNN Sioux Falls affiliate KSFY that `` Planned Parenthood has not done anything to police itself when a woman is being coerced into this action . '' Hupke says the centers will provide important counseling about abortion and offer alternatives `` so that women get the information so that they can make an informed decision , a voluntary decision . '' The Guttmacher Institute , a New York-based research center for sexual and reproductive health , says that 34 states require that women receive counseling before an abortion is performed . Twenty-five of those states also require women to wait a specified amount of time -- usually 24 hours -- between the counseling and the abortion procedure , the group says . Language at the beginning of the bill states that it establishes `` certain procedures to better insure that [ abortion ] decisions are voluntary , uncoerced , and informed , and to revise certain causes of action for professional negligence relating to performance of an abortion . '' Under the law , no physician may have the pregnant woman sign a consent for the abortion on the day of the initial consultation . The doctor must perform an assessment and can not schedule a procedure `` to take place in less than 72 hours from the completion of such consultation and assessment except in medical emergency . '' The physician will discuss risk factors with the woman and must provide information on `` pregnancy help centers , '' according to the law . The woman must undergo a pregnancy center consultation prior to the day of any scheduled abortion and provide written proof to the doctor . Planned Parenthood said the centers `` must have as their central mission a desire to dissuade a woman from having an abortion , no matter what her particular risks or circumstances . '' South Dakota obstetrician Marvin Buehner told CNN Rapid City affiliate KEVN that the new law is `` government-mandated interference in the doctor/patient relationship . ''
South Dakota governor signed the bill . It requires a woman to wait 72 hours after consultation before abortion . She must also get counseling at ` ` pregnancy counseling center '' Barring legal challenge , the law took effect July 1 .