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Photos: Providing abortions at South Dakota’s only clinic

Dr. Carol Ball, at right in car, arrives at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Sioux Falls, S.D., as protesters Sara Beaner and five of her seven children stand outside the clinic with a sign that reads, "You are wonderfully made."

Dr. Carol Ball, at right in car, arrives at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Sioux Falls, S.D., as protesters Sara Beaner and five of her seven children stand outside the clinic with a sign that reads, “You are wonderfully made.”

  (Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)

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Several times a month, Dr. Carol Ball jets into South Dakota to perform abortions at the only clinic in the state -- a Planned Parenthood facility that for the last decade has been unable to find a local doctor willing to perform the procedure.

Planned Parenthood clinic in Sioux Falls, S.D.

Holding paperwork and a bag of medication, Carol Ball enters a room to provide a patient with an abortion at the Sioux Falls Planned Parenthood clinic.

  (Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)

Planned Parenthood clinic in Sioux Falls, S.D.

Carol Ball fills out paperwork at the Sioux Falls clinic. Ball flies in from St. Paul, Minn., several times a month to provide abortions to women in South Dakota, which has only one such clinic and no local doctors willing to staff it.

  (Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)

Planned Parenthood clinic in Sioux Falls, S.D.

An examination room at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Sioux Falls, S.D.

  (Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)

Planned Parenthood clinic in Sioux Falls, S.D.

At the end of the day, after providing 17 women with abortions, Carol Ball is picked up by security and taken back to the airport to fly home to Minnesota.   (Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)

Planned Parenthood clinic in Sioux Falls, S.D.

A security camera is aimed at the grounds outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in Sioux Falls, S.D.

  (Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)

Planned Parenthood clinic in Sioux Falls, S.D.

Grant Geister, with rosary, Father Joe Vogel, Rita Siebert and Mike McConnell pray in front of the Sioux Falls clinic. They said members of the St. Katharine Drexel Parish pray each Friday for the “conversion of staff and patients to respect life from natural conception to natural death.”

  (Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)

Planned Parenthood clinic in Sioux Falls, S.D.

The sun begins to set on Phillips Avenue in downtown Sioux Falls, which has the only clinic in South Dakota that offers abortions.   (Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)

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