A new report by the ACLU of Illinois and Women's Justice Institute details stories from women who were pregnant while in county jails across Illinois. Researchers also learned that a quarter of county jails do not have written policies on how to care for people who are pregnant or postpartum.
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To keep up with the demand, Planned Parenthood expanded abortion services at its Champaign Health Center in 2022 and last month opened a new clinic in Carbondale.
More than 56,000 abortions were performed in Illinois the year the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, marking the most pregnancy terminations statewide since the mid-1990s, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health’s annual abortion statistics report. The rise in abortions that year was driven by a roughly 49% spike in out-of-state patients: Nearly 17,000 people came from .