Many women with high-risk pregnancies can’t get abortions in their home states. Illinois welcomes them.
<p>As states across much of the South and Midwest banned or further restricted abortions after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022, they fueled a wave of people with high-risk pregnancies traveling to hospitals in Chicago.</p><p>The prohibitions also spurred a group of doctors, hospitals, a nonprofit and the state of Illinois to try to make a challenging and expensive journey a little easier.</p><p>“We’re really viewed as … one of the places of last resort,” said Dr.
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<p>As states across much of the South and Midwest banned or further restricted abortions after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022, they fueled a wave of people with high-risk pregnancies traveling to hospitals in Chicago.</p><p>The prohibitions also spurred a group of doctors, hospitals, a nonprofit and the state of Illinois to try to make a challenging and expensive journey a little easier.</p><p>“We’re really viewed as … one of the places of last resort,” said Dr. Laura Laursen, an OB/GYN at Rush University Medical Center who helped start what’s known as <a class="Link" href="https://www.wbez.org/environment-public-health/2023/07/31/illinois-launching-hotline-for-high-risk-abortion-help" target="_blank" ><u>the Complex Abortion Regional Line for Access</u></a>, or <a class="Link" href="https://www.carlaprogram.org/" target="_blank" ><u>CARLA</u></a>, in 2023 to help women with high-risk pregnancies get abortion care in an Illinois hospital.</p><p>Even before <a class="Link" href="https://www.npr.org/2022/06/24/1102305878/supreme-court-abortion-roe-v-wade-decision-overturn" target="_blank" ><u>Roe fell</u></a>, Dr. Jonah Fleisher, an OB/GYN at UI Health, said women had to navigate a dizzying array of logistics to find an appointment.</p><p>He <a class="Link" href="https://www.wbez.org/environment-public-health/2023/06/28/illinois-hospitals-see-influx-of-high-risk-abortion-patients-from-out-of-state" target="_blank" ><u>would field calls</u></a> from panicked patients in parking lots of abortion clinics.
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- <p>As states across much of the South and Midwest banned or further restricted abortions after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022, they fueled a wave of people with high-risk pregnancies traveling to hospitals in Chicago.</p><p>The prohibitions also spurred a group of doctors, hospitals, a nonprofit and the state of Illinois to try to make a challenging and expensive journey a little easier.</p><p>“We’re really viewed as … one of the places of last resort,” said Dr.
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Many women with high-risk pregnancies can’t get abortions in their home states. Illinois welcomes them.
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