“It was a moment we’ve all been preparing for and yet I found there was nothing that could have prepared me for what that would feel like to see those referrals coming through,” said a Planned Parenthood patient navigator.
Anjali Pinto for NBC NewsFLOSSMOOR, Ill. — One of the first patients to arrive at the clinic the day it resumed abortion procedures after the reversal of Roe v. Wade was a woman who had just driven nine hours from Arkansas.
Before leaving on the more than 500-mile drive back home, the woman told the staff at the clinic simply that “Arkansas sucks,” said a medical assistant who checked the woman out. In Indiana, which did not have a “trigger law” banning abortions with the fall of Roe, as Arkansas did, the state’s attorney general has asked federal judges to lift orders blocking several state anti-abortion laws, and the Legislature will be taking up abortion restrictions during a special session scheduled to begin July 6.
The clinic, one of 17 run by Planned Parenthood of Illinois throughout the state, has spent the last year preparing for the possibility of a post-Roe United States. the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to allow a state law largely banning abortion around six weeks of pregnancy to take effect as soon as possible.
Patients are not necessarily directed to the closest clinic, she said, because sometimes they need to get to the one with the earliest available appointment, which means they are now going all over Illinois.
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