For many Americans, Illinois became the only place to legally access abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.
, which opened in 2020 just south of the Illinois/Wisconsin border, in anticipation of Roe’s fall.
Since the Roe decision, calls for care to PPWI doubled, and all patients are being diverted out of state, mostly to Illinois. The Wisconsin staff who will work in Illinois have allowed Waukegan Health Center to double abortion services and expand other work including telehealth and family planning, according to PPIL Chief Strategy and Operations Officer Kristen Schultz.Ward Alderman Lynn Florian supported the health center when it quietly opened two years ago, saying she was grateful Planned Parenthood would bring its resources to their community.
Florian said the clinic consistently draws protesters, but to her knowledge, there’s been no physical safety concerns. The city’s police chief has assured Florian the department will continue to protect Planned Parenthood’s patients, she said. “I do anticipate, certainly as these laws go into effect, that these groups will begin to target the states that still do have abortion access and abortion laws on the books," she said."Roe getting overturned is their stepping-stone toward a national abortion ban, and as they say, an abortion-free America. So, I think they believe it’s a huge victory, but it’s certainly not the end of the road for the antis, so nor will it be for the escorts.
Then, at her 20-week checkup, doctors discovered the baby had one nonworking kidney and another working only at 50%., which the National Library of Medicine says is a “fatal congenital disorder” that is “incompatible with life.” A day shy of her 24-week mark, Cashion was induced and went through 19 hours of labor to deliver the boy she named Mason, who weighed just 1 pound.Cashion faced immediate pushback and attacks from people she knew for not trying to carry to term.
Cashion said she was “very upset” to learn about Roe being overturned:"If it wasn't for the abortion laws … I would have never been able to make that choice. “I don’t talk about it,” Roberts said tearfully. “So, when people tell me abortion should be illegal, it makes me so angry because until you live in the footsteps of other women, how dare you.”“Women," she said,"should not have to be in that position."Cashion said she’s already seen social media chatter about protests once the CHOICES clinic opens. She thinks locals will protest, as well as people from out of town.
But, she said:"I don't know. We're a smaller city. This is the Bible Belt. So, it's kind of … up in the air."sits on the board of Rainbow Café LGBTQ+ Center in Carbondale and is also an associate professor in communications and gender studies at Southern Illinois University.
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