Planned Parenthood Saw 700% Spike in Abortion Patients Traveling to Illinois Post-Roe

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54% : Planned Parenthood says its abortion-providing clinic in Fairview Heights, Illinois, saw a 700% increase in out-of-state abortion patients, on top of a 35% increase in abortion patients in general over the last 11 months.
51% : After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Dr. Colleen McNicholas, chief medical director of Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, worked with a patient who drove 13 hours to her clinic in Illinois from the southernmost part of Texas for a medication abortion.
51% : Yamelsie Rodriguez, president and CEO of Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, told Jezebel in a statement that patients coming to her clinics in the southern region of Illinois for abortion care from 29 other states are "mostly from the South."
48% : Some traveling patients, she says, are from states where abortion is legal, but providers are struggling or unable to "meet the increased demand from states surrounding them."
47% : Planned Parenthood says procedural abortion 14 weeks or later increased by 32% in its southern Illinois clinics.
43% : As we mark the first anniversary without Roe, even states where abortion has remained legal have been gutted by the decision, inundated with out-of-state patients seeking abortion care due to bans in their states.
39% : Because of these increased wait times and barriers in states where abortion remains legal, McNicholas says traveling patients aren't just coming from states that have banned it.

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