Each year, thousands of women cross state lines to have an abortion in Illinois — and that number could grow exponentially as pending U.S. Supreme Court decisions and new laws in various states challenge reproductive rights across the nation.
cross state lines to have an abortion in Illinois — and that number could grow exponentially as pending U.S. Supreme Court decisions and new laws in various states challenge reproductive rights across large swaths of the nation.
The center — which is housed in a Planned Parenthood clinic in Fairview Heights — opened Friday, just before the 49th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court abortion rights case Roe v. Wade on Saturday. “Together, we’re breaking down the silos anti-abortion politicians created and proving that in community, with innovation and determination, we can secure a future with abortion access,” said Yamelsie Rodríguez, president and CEO of Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region.
by Reproductive Health Services predicted that if Roe were to fall, southern Illinois abortion providers could in the first year see some 14,000 more patients from outside their service area. But the message also urged Illinoisans to remember “that while the prospect of Roe being overturned is great news for much of America, it puts Illinois and, for that matter, the entire Midwest,” in a precarious spot.
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