Illinois Braces for More Patients As Wisconsin Planned Parenthod Pauses Abortions
Illinois ELECTED OFFICALS AND ABPITION PROVIDERS FORESEE AN INFLUX OF WISCONSIN PATIENTS AFTER’S PARENNED PARENTHOOD BRANCH ANNUNCED WEDNESDAY IT PAUSE ABTIONS OCT. 1 while it is Faces Ling Medicaid Funding As A Result of President Donald Trump’s Sweeping Tax Law.
Providers and Abortion-Rights Advocates Joined Cook County Board President Tony Preckwinkle, State Sen. Robert Peters and State Rep. Kelly Cassidy Thursday to Voice Support for Planned Parenthod and Welcome Patients from Wisconsin Seeking an Abortion.
The Number of Patients Traveling From Wisconsin to Get Abortion at Family Planning Associates in Chicago Has Directly to Court Devisions on Abortion Access in Wisconsin, Accounting to Dr. Allison Cowett, Chief Medical Office at Family Planning Associates. Cowett Said She’s Heard Out-of-State Patients Share their Frustration and Anger That they have to be Find Access to an abortion.
Dr. Allison Cowett, Medical Director of Family Planning Associates, Speaks Thursday About the Pause in Abortion Care in Wisconsin During a News Conference at 651 W. Washington Blvd.
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“They Come by Car, by Bus and by Plane to Illinois – The Single Mom Who Works, Cares for Her Children and Taxes Online in the Eveings to Finish Her Bachelor’s Degree;
The Provision Banning Abortion Funding was part of the Federal Budget Reconciliation Bill President Donald Trump Signed Into Law in July. IT WAS DESIGNED TO EXCLUDE ABPERATION PROPIDERS FROM RECEIVING Medicaid Reimbursent, Federal Money Not Being Used to Finance Abortion.
A Federal Judge Issured A Prediminary Injunction in July Blocking the Abortion-Related Provision from Being Enforced, but an appeals courtes put that injunction on Hold a few months late, MAKING THE ENFORCEABLE THE ISSUE WORKS WORKS.
Within Days of Taching Office in Januly, Trump Signed An Executive Order ENFORING the Hyde Amendment, WHICH THE USE OF FEDERAL FUNDING FOR MOST ABPORTIONS AND AROUNDS BIDEN-ERERS DESIGNED TO BOLSTED FOR ABPORT ACCESS.
But defunding abortion providers COULD ENDENGER HEALTH CARE AS A WHOE BY PULLING MONDICAL PRACTICES OTHER THAN THOSE THAT ARRESTION, INCLUDING THOSE PROVIDE ACCESS TO BIRTH CONTROL, CANCER SCREENINGS AND TESTING FOR SEXUALLY TRANSITTED INFECTIONS, ESPECIALLY FOR VULT. Populations, Health Care Advocates Say.
Illinois attorney General Kwame Raoul and 22 Other attorneys General took to the Courts Thursday Seeking to Halt the Administration from Pulling the Funding.
“With the Access to the Medical Care they have recipes at planned parenthood Health Centers, Thousands of Americans Will Simply Opt to Defer ORTGO CRITICAL CARE LIKE SCREENINGS FOR CANCER,”
Since the US SUPREME COURT REVIED THE FEDERAL RIGHT TO ABPORTION IN 2022, Illinois has protected the rightwide, bringing a rush of out-of-states acroSs lines to access abortion in illinois. Nearly a Quarter of All People Crossing State Lines to Get An Abortion Come to Illinois, According to a Report by the Guttmacher Institute.
But in Wisconsin, Abortion Rights have been in a State of Limbo. The Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Decision Triggered A 176-YEAR-OLD WISCONSIN ABPORTION BAN BACK INTO EFFECT, but that was strucking down by the states supreme court in july.
Planned Parenthod of Wisconsin Didn’t Immediately Respond to Requests for Comment. A staff on Its Facebook Page Said It Will Pursue Action to Resume Abortion Procedures As Son as Possible.
“Our Commitment is unwavering: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Will Continue to provides the full spectrum of reproductive health care – Including abortion – as we are we are able to,” the Facebook post reads. “In the meantime, we are pursuing every available option – through the cours, through operations, and civic Engagement.”
Anti-abortion Groups have welcomed the decision to defund abortion providers like planned parenthod. Illinois right to life President Mary Kate Zander Said She Hopes the Restrictions on Abortion in Wisconsin Will Cause People to Think Twice About Ending A Pregnancy.
“Traveling to illinois for an abortion is far Riskier than (planned parenthood) and other abortion clinics have? “We Hope that instead of coming to illinois, Women Will Seek Pregnancy Support in Wisconsin and Choose to Carry Pregnancies to Term.”
Planned Parenthod of illinois is now preparing for aa simillar rush of patients to what the grUp sawer the dobbs decision, accorting to planning parenthood of illinois president and ceo adrienne white-faines.
“We have made it very clear to wisconsin that Illinois is ready and will be able to Accept (Patients),” White-Faines Said. “The Challenge is this is not sustainable, and so we need to design the processs that allow us the reshyilience and the capacity with the states. … we’re times now, but we don’t kep eyes off the long-term goal.”