Illinois
Abortion is legal in Illinois. In Wisconsin, it’s nearly banned. So clinics teamed up
Round two days per week, Natalee Hartwig leaves her dwelling in Madison, Wisconsin, earlier than her son wakes up, to journey throughout the border into Illinois.
“Fortunately it is summer time,” stated Hartwig, a nurse midwife at Deliberate Parenthood of Wisconsin. “For now he can sleep in. However any preparing that has to occur might be on my partner.”
She drives not less than two hours every means, immersed in audiobooks and podcasts as she drives to a clinic within the northern Illinois suburb of Waukegan. She spends her days within the restoration room, caring for sufferers who had abortions and checking their vitals earlier than they go dwelling. She additionally acquired licensed in Illinois and skilled to offer medicine abortion, one thing she’ll have the ability to do just about by telehealth with sufferers throughout Illinois.
Hartwig is actually working half time in Illinois as a result of when Roe v Wade was overturned in June, a Wisconsin legislation instantly took impact that bans practically all abortions, besides to save lots of the lifetime of the pregnant individual. Wisconsin suppliers need to protect entry for sufferers, whereas these in Illinois – lengthy an oasis for abortion rights – want extra workers to assist deal with a surge of individuals arriving from throughout the U.S.
The Waukegan clinic is Deliberate Parenthood of Illinois’ busiest for out-of-state abortion sufferers. After Roe fell, 60% of sufferers got here to this clinic from outdoors the state – principally from Wisconsin. The truth is, the group opened in Waukegan two years in the past with Wisconsin in thoughts, figuring out that if Roe v. Wade did fall, entry to abortion in that state would drastically diminish.
After Roe was struck down, Deliberate Parenthood organizations in each states introduced their partnership. Greater than a dozen workers from Wisconsin – together with medical doctors, nurses and medical assistants – now commute to Waukegan to assist present care.
“It actually required this excellent pairing of provide and demand,” stated Kristen Schultz, Deliberate Parenthood of Illinois’ chief technique and operations officer. “They’d capability with out native demand, and we had the alternative.”
Within the month after the U.S. Supreme Courtroom overturned the landmark resolution, Illinois grew to become much more of an oasis for individuals in search of abortions. Dozens of clinics closed throughout the nation as 11 states within the South and Midwest applied bans, in line with the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit that helps abortion rights and tracks the difficulty.
The inflow of sufferers into Illinois has had one other affect. For years, abortion suppliers have been touring a few times a month to different states like Kansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma, the place their assist was badly wanted.
Chicago OB-GYN Dr. Laura Laursen was one among them.
“Now the script is completely flipped,” stated Laursen, a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Well being. “That is the place you might be wanted greater than anyplace else.”
Anti-abortion teams oppose the Deliberate Parenthood partnership and are making ready for a marathon effort to limit abortion rights in Illinois. In a press release after the group’s announcement, Amy Gehrke, government director of Illinois Proper to Life, known as it “significantly tragic.”
Serving to to deal with the surge
Contained in the Waukegan clinic, there are typical examination tables, ultrasound machines and hardwood flooring all through. There are additionally indicators of what the area was – a giant financial institution on a busy retail strip – such because the shiny vault within the workers break room.
A number of the Wisconsin suppliers commute to Waukegan just a few instances per week; others just a few days a month.
For Hartwig, affiliate director of medical companies at Deliberate Parenthood of Wisconsin, she’s capable of do extra for sufferers in Illinois than she might again dwelling. At the same time as a nurse with a sophisticated diploma, she wasn’t allowed to offer medicine abortion in Wisconsin. However she will be able to in Illinois, in line with the state Division of Monetary and Skilled Regulation.
“This was actually simply what I used to be all the time purported to do,” Hartwig stated. “There’s nothing that is going to maintain me from serving to our sufferers.”
Dr. Kathy King, Deliberate Parenthood of Wisconsin’s medical director, stated whereas her workers is devoted to offering these companies, it comes at a price.
“It’s a burden on our clinicians and nurses and medical assistants who’ve younger kids at dwelling,” King stated. “It sounds nice. Positive, we’ll all simply journey right down to Waukegan 5 days per week. However the logistics of that and the sacrifice of doing that on simply individuals’s day-to-day lives takes a toll.”
Nonetheless, this sacrifice has helped. With workers from Wisconsin, the Waukegan clinic now has doubled the variety of abortion appointments obtainable, and so they’re nonetheless ramping up. This additionally frees up different workers to deal with sufferers who come for different wants, like contraception and most cancers screenings.
There was a burst of sufferers from Wisconsin for abortion appointments in any respect Deliberate Parenthood of Illinois clinics — a tenfold enhance within the month after Roe was overturned, from about 35 sufferers a month to 350, King stated. That does not embrace Wisconsin residents who might need sought abortions with different suppliers.
A possible mannequin
The Waukegan clinic has ignited curiosity from abortion suppliers in different close by states. Deliberate Parenthood of Illinois is fielding calls from these in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, for instance, Schultz stated.
What Illinois wants is extra workers to deal with extra sufferers. However the place will these further workers come from? The commute from Wisconsin to Waukegan is comparatively quick in contrast with suppliers in Ohio who’d should cross Indiana to get right here.
Throughout the nation, there are different conversations taking place amongst suppliers. The Nationwide Abortion Federation, which has about 500 facility members together with impartial abortion clinics and hospitals, is pairing up people who find themselves in search of jobs at clinics with those who want employees, stated Melissa Fowler, chief program officer on the federation.
Nonetheless, she acknowledged transferring is not a practical possibility for everybody.
“Individuals have lives,” Fowler stated. “They’ve households. They’re deeply rooted of their communities. … And so a state of affairs such as you’re seeing in Illinois and Wisconsin is nice as a result of individuals are capable of keep linked to their neighborhood, not have to maneuver their household and nonetheless have the ability to present care.”
In southern Illinois, many individuals who work in a clinic in Fairview Heights stay throughout the border in St. Louis. It is a roughly 30-minute commute for Dr. Colleen McNicholas, chief medical officer of Deliberate Parenthood of the St. Louis Area and Southwest Missouri.
Throughout her profession, she’s traveled to Kansas and Oklahoma to offer abortions. Now she’s seeing whose experience she will be able to carry to Fairview Heights, corresponding to medical doctors and clinic managers in Arkansas who in a post-Roe world now work in a state that has banned practically all abortions. There’s been a giant uptick in sufferers in search of abortions in Fairview Heights just lately coming from Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi.
“Who’s going to offer these companies?” McNicholas requested.
Earlier than the June resolution, sufferers in Fairview Heights sometimes waited three days for an appointment to get an abortion. Now they wait round three weeks — at a clinic that gives abortions six days per week, eight hours a day.
Inside the 12 months, McNicholas stated the clinic would possibly open its doorways seven days per week, 12 hours a day.
She worries even which may not be sufficient to present fast entry to sufferers.
This story was produced as a part of NPR’s partnership with Kaiser Well being Information and WBEZ Chicago.
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Illinois
Doyle, Wires spark Illinois' full-court attack in third straight Muddy River Showcase victory – Muddy River Sports
QUINCY — Dion Doyle decided this was the perfect opportunity to run it back.
The Macomb basketball standout was part of a team that included Quincy High School’s Ralph Wires that won back-to-back Gus Macker 3-on-3 championships when the event was a Memorial Day weekend staple in downtown Quincy.
Saturday, the duo reunited in the third annual Muddy River Showcase, guiding the Illinois all-stars to a 92-70 victory over their Missouri counterparts at John Wood Community College’s Student Activity Center. It was Illinois’ third consecutive victory in the series.
“This was our last-ever high school game,” Doyle said. “It felt good to get out and go, but it was kind of bittersweet since this is the end.”
To finish the way Doyle and his 3-on-3 counterpart did made it memorable.
“We’ve been playing together for seven or eight years,” Wires said of his relationship with Doyle. “Reuniting with him was awesome. I enjoyed playing with all of these guys and battling with them. This was a great group of guys.”
It took some toughness and tenacity to fend off the Show Me State.
Missouri led 32-26 with less than four minutes remaining in the second quarter by capitalizing on Illinois’ woeful start offensively. The Land of Lincolners went 6 of 21 from the field and 0 of 5 from 3-point range in the first quarter.
“We were shooting bad shots,” Wires said. “We certainly weren’t shooting our best. We were missing bunnies and dunks, too. It just wasn’t going our way.”
The Show Me State’s ability to keep Illinois from scoring in transition built confidence.
“I didn’t think they expected us to play as good as we did,” Highland’s Brady Campen said.
Ultimately, the ability to create easy offense with defensive pressure changed the game. Illinois closed the first half on a 16-2 run, scoring eight points off turnovers.
“They’re a great team, but we figured they couldn’t run with us once we got going,” Doyle said. “Once we get going up and down the floor, it’s kind of hard to stop us. We were pushing each other, and this was a great group of guys.”
Sharing the basketball influenced that attack.
The Illinois squad forced 22 turnovers, which led to a 27-7 advantage in points off turnovers, but it also dished out 16 assists, which led to shooting 46 percent from the field in the second half. Quincy High School’s Camden Brown and Tyler Sprick and Pittsfield’s Brennan Tomhave had a team-high three assists apiece.
“At the beginning, we were settling for the first shot too much,” said Zack Evans, the Winchester West Central all-state guard who has signed with John Wood Community College. “We weren’t trusting each other. Once we started trusting each other, knowing we can all score the ball at a high level, we started to calm down and everything went smoothly from there.”
Doyle scored 24 points, grabbed nine rebounds and had three steals in earning Illinois MVP honors, while Brown had 14 points and seven rebounds, Evans finished with 13 points and eight rebounds, and Wires collected 11 points, five steals and two assists.
“Our whole lineup was deep,” Evans said. “It was a super-athletic group, and it was a blast to play with them.”
Illinois’ depth proved key in the second half. Missouri shot 50 percent from the field over the final 20 minutes, but attempted just 30 shots because of lost possessions due to Illinois’ defense.
“It was great to be around great players,” Doyle said.
Campen led Missouri with 11 points and 11 rebounds to grab MVP honors, while Van-Far’s Nikos Connoway and South Shelby’s Chance Rainey scored 13 points apiece. Palmyra’s Carson Hicks had 11 points, while Palmyra teammate Bear Bock finished with six points and 10 rebounds.
“Oh, beyond proud of this effort,” Campen said. “Just being able to play and get out here with these guys was a blast.”
It’s a memory none of them will forget.
“We knew getting to play with this many athletic players was going to be a blast,” Evans said. “Coming out on top feels great.”
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WRSP/WCCU) — With millions of cicadas emerging this summer across the state of Illinois and the nation, many are curious to learn more about these critters. Some are even curious enough to eat them.
A pizza topping or tasty treat isn’t what comes to mind for most when it comes to cicadas, but for one group of University of Illinois educators, that is exactly what they thought of.
U of I extension horticulture educators Ken Johnson and Chris Enroth hosted a cicada-themed lunch late last month for their podcast Good Growing. They wanted to highlight every angle of cicadas, from what they do to how they taste.
We blanched some so basically you boil them for a minute or two, and that’s gonna clean them off if there’s any microbes in or around them, it’s gonna kill, basically gonna cook them,” said Johnson. “Eat them blanched, they’re gonna kinda taste like asparagus, and then you roast them and you kinda get the real nutty aroma, kinda nutty flavor to them.”
Johnson said for the lunch, they used cicadas that were freshly hatched in order to avoid wings and legs. He said if you do use older cicadas to clip off their wings and legs before consuming.
But the answer most want to know is did the cicada dishes taste good? Johnson and Enroth say yes, and recommend everyone try something new.
The periodical pesto pizza, the cicada tempura, and then finally it’s the cicada sundae,” said Enroth when describing the dishes they had at the lunch. “I wasn’t really kicking and screaming but I was hesitant to eat that first cicada. I will say it’s a fun experience, do take that opportunity, try something new.
For those who are allergic to shellfish, it is recommended that you do not try cicadas as they are in the same family as shellfish and may cause an allergic reaction.
Johnson and Enroth also advise against harvesting cicadas from areas that have a lot of heavy metals or pesticides in the soil as cicadas can absorb some of it during their many years underground.
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