reporter: that s right, lester democrats have taken steps to guarantee abortion rights that s all but certain to fail, but they say they still want to get every senator on the record lester peter alexander at the white house, thank you. some of the states that have those abortion trigger laws we just talked about are preparing for what might be inevitable blaine alexander tonight on how the leaked supreme court draft decision is playing out in those states and beyond. reporter: in north dakota, women have one place to go for abortion services, red river women s clinic in fargo. it is a very rural state, so we serve a lot of black, indigenous and people of color in our center, and those are the people that would be disproportionately harmed by this ban. reporter: that ban not final. but after the bombshell leak of the supreme court draft opinion, providers are preparing. she s posted on the clinic s website letting clients know their appointments are still good but, she says
abortion rights with even more dog tenacity. and to be clear, this moment was 50 years in the making. and like all catastrophes, if it comes to pass and i don t know for sure that it will, i hope it does not it will be the product of a whole bunch of things that had to go wrong at the same time. that s a definition of catastrophe. the list is endless. but it has been interesting to see the fallout on the right from this leaked draft. among the first responses from republicans and i think most people miss this, i read it on air because we were covering it in realtime the other night it came from far-right congressman billy long of missouri. long is running in a contested primary to fill the seat being vacated by retiring senator roy blunt. on monday, after an hour passed from the leak, he put out a statement saying, quote, i am optimistic that these reports are true and that the supreme court will do the right thing, finally overturning this travesty of a decision. i have always