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.
The clinic's waitlist for abortions has grown from two days to nearly three weeks after the Supreme Court ruling — even after staffers started working 10-hour shifts and opened the clinic on Saturdays. McNicholas is eyeing a proposed six-week abortion ban in Florida, which could send even more women seeking abortions up north. And she's closely watching how a Texas judge will rule on a case that seeks to keep the abortion pill mifepristone off the market.
Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio On June 24, the Supreme Court ruled that abortion was not a constitutionally protected right. Within hours, states such as Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas began enacting trigger laws that banned abortions.
"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." During the final six months of last year, the Fairview Heights clinic saw 2,042 abortion patients from outside of Missouri or Illinois — up from just 314 the six months before.
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