Hundreds of women are traveling weekly to the southern tip of Illinois to secure an abortion.
Illinois Planned Parenthood locations are seeing more patients from out of state after Supreme Court justices' ruling on Roe v. Wade.Dr. Colleen McNicholas is fresh off performing two abortions when a ringing phone quickly stops her."Oh, ugh," she said, eyes widened, before she darted off to another room.
"With every piece of litigation, with every new constitutional amendment, with every new abortion restriction in a state that has some access, we are on this teeter-totter of what can we do here to make more space for the people who are going to be fleeing their home state?" McNicholas said. Months before Roe v. Wade was overturned, Planned Parenthood and the nearby Hope Clinic had already been grappling with a surge of patients from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and elsewhere after Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, signed a bill into law that effectively shut down several abortion clinics in his state and led to long waiting lists in neighboring states' facilities.
A staffer is available around-the-clock to answer desperate calls from patients who run into travel issues. Workers raced to arrange a ride to the airport in the middle of the night for one patient to flee her abusive partner. They troubleshoot when a car breaks down on the trip to southern Illinois. They navigated canceled flights during a crushing winter travel season to make sure one woman made it back to her family on Christmas day after an abortion.
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