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Wisconsin abortion providers partner with Planned Parenthood of Illinois to keep providing abortion care
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- Deliberate Parenthood of Wisconsin is partnering with Deliberate Parenthood of Illinois to supply Wisconsin residents abortion care out-of-state.
- It’s an effort to satisfy surging affected person demand amid a restrictive abortion legislation in Wisconsin.
- Deliberate Parenthood of Wisconsin is sending its well being care suppliers to a Waukegan, Unwell. clinic a number of occasions every week.
Abortion suppliers in Wisconsin have discovered an answer to their state’s restrictive abortion legislation: journey to neighboring Deliberate Parenthood of Illinois to proceed to supply abortion care to Wisconsin residents throughout state strains.
Deliberate Parenthood of Illinois (PPIL) and Wisconsin (PPWI) introduced this week that the 2 reproductive well being care suppliers are partnering to convey skilled medical professionals into Illinois to satisfy the rising affected person demand for abortion care.
The choice to associate is in response to a century-old 1849 abortion legislation that might take impact in Wisconsin and criminalize the process. Wisconsin can now enact this legislation after the Supreme Court docket dominated in June that there isn’t a constitutional proper to abortion–overturning the 1973 choice in Roe v. Wade.
PPWI has already begun sending its medical suppliers over to PPIL’s Waukegan, Illinois clinic a number of days every week—about 130 miles away from the state’s shared border.
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That Waukegan clinic was opened for exactly this purpose, with Jennifer Welch, president and CEO of PPIL, explaining at a press convention that the clinic opened in 2020 in anticipation that abortion entry would turn out to be restricted or outright banned in Wisconsin if Roe have been to be struck down.
Wisconsin medical suppliers additionally started coaching and turning into licensed to supply care in Illinois earlier this 12 months, so they’re now prepared and capable of present abortion care to any Wisconsin resident that wants it.
For Wisconsin residents that search abortion providers, they may seemingly have to journey to PPIL’s Waukegan clinic however can obtain pre-and-post-procedure care in Wisconsin. PPWI is at present suspending all abortion care—and was certainly one of solely two abortion suppliers working within the state.
“Because the Supreme Court docket’s choice, our name quantity has doubled and we’re referring all of our abortion sufferers out-of-state for care. Nearly all of these sufferers are being referred to Illinois,” mentioned Tanya Atkinson, president and CEO of PPWI.
Atkinson additionally mentioned PPWI is working to coach Wisconsin residents of their abortion care choices together with offering sources for monetary help if they should go out-of-state for care.
Illinois is shortly turning into an abortion secure haven for many individuals across the nation, with state well being knowledge revealing about 9,700 pregnancies have been terminated for out-of-state residents in 2020—the best quantity Illinois has skilled over the previous 25 years.
“As a result of abortion is secure and authorized in Illinois, we are actually an oasis for care, as thousands and thousands of sufferers are stranded in an enormous abortion desert, together with Wisconsin residents,” mentioned Welch.
Printed on Jul. 15, 2022