With Roe overturned, Illinois — a Midwest refuge for abortion care — prepares for influx of patients from other states

Gov. J.B. Pritzker in 2019 signed the Reproductive Health Act, ensconcing the “fundamental right” to terminate a pregnancy in state law.The Planned Parenthood Fairview Heights Health Center, an abortion clinic a few miles from the Missouri border in Fairview Heights, Illinois on May 6, 2022.

Nearly 10,000 patients crossed state lines to have an abortion in Illinois in 2020, the most recent Illinois Department of Public Health data available. This was a 29% increase compared to the number of patients who traveled 2019; the number of out-of-state patients coming to Illinois to terminate a pregnancy has risen every year since 2014, according to state health department data.

“We are devastated,” said Lyerly, an obstetrician-gynecologist who has performed abortions there for six months and elsewhere in the state for about a decade. “So many of the patients we see are already at a huge disadvantage, whether that means financial, support, everything. And now they will have to travel and spend more. They just don’t have the resources to get the care that they need and deserve. I’m afraid they will do unsafe things out of desperation.

Facing the end of Roe, a Tennessee abortion provider is opening a clinic in Carbondale, roughly three hours from Memphis and Nashville. CHOICES Memphis Center for Reproductive Health said on its website that the new southern Illinois clinic will offer both surgical and medication abortions.“By the end of the year, Tennessee lawmakers will decimate abortion access in our state,” CHOICES said in written statement.

At the same time, the looming threat of Roe’s demise has spurred new and innovative means of abortion access in Illinois, as well as other states with strong reproductive rights protections across the country.

Illinois rapidly descending to the center of the abortion, gambling and weed industries, wile losing tractors, finance, and aircraft makers. All the while the media cheers on the change.

If abortion is about putting your own life above that of a baby, I hardly think women will risk their own lives coming to the gun violence capital of the country for an abortion. We will have to come up with another way to drive tourism.

Of course it would

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