Wisconsin doctor buys Illinois buildings to offer abortions

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin physician has bought two medical buildings in northern Illinois the place he plans to supply abortion tablets as early as this week at one location and surgical abortions inside six months on the different website.

The transfer comes after the U.S. Supreme Court docket overturned federal abortion rights final month. That led abortion suppliers in Wisconsin to cease the procedures whereas the courts decide whether or not the state’s 1849 legislation banning most abortions stands. Abortion stays authorized in Illinois.

Dr. Dennis Christensen says he’s a part of a gaggle attempting to revive abortion companies in Rockford, Illinois, partly to accommodate ladies from Wisconsin. Christensen is an obstetrician-gynecologist who has offered abortions in Madison and Milwaukee and is now principally retired, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.

Christensen lately bought a former acupuncture workplace for $75,000 and the previous Animal Emergency Clinic of Rockford for $350,000, based on the Winnebago County data.

Christensen mentioned he plans to supply remedy abortions on the former acupuncture workplace as quickly as Friday. The newly shaped Rockford Household Planning Basis is fundraising and is getting ready the second website for surgical abortions, contraception and associated care.

“We really feel prefer it’s completely important for us to get open as shortly as attainable,” mentioned Jeanne Bissell, the inspiration’s president.

The one exception to Wisconsin’s abortion ban entails a threat to the mom’s life. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Lawyer Normal Josh Kaul filed a lawsuit final month difficult the outdated legislation, arguing that Eighties statutes supersede the ban and that it has been dormant so lengthy it ought to be unenforceable.