Abortion is no longer available to millions living in a 1,800-mile stretch of 11 Southern states that mostly banned pregnancy terminations.
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. — Dr. Colleen McNicholas is fresh off performing two abortions, but the day is still stacked with appointments; as many as 100 abortion and family planning patients might walk through the doors.
People are also reading… “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 were 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 waitlists in neighboring states’ facilities.
“It’s not going to slow down,” Shannon said. “We are really taking care of the entire Southern region. All the in the South are really coming to southern Illinois because we’re the closest. Almost all of them need some type of help — be it travel, be it procedure costs.”
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