Woman’s 500-mile trek to an Illinois abortion clinic may be start of a wave to come , By Safia Samee Ali, NBC news
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.
The Planned Parenthood clinic here in Flossmoor has occasionally gotten patients from Texas after it severely restricted abortion access last year, but its out-of-state patients have been mainly from Indiana, less than 10 miles away, said Stephanie Navarro, the health center manager.
The woman from Arkansas was unusual in that regard. But much of the clinic’s staff took her arrival as a sign of what’s to come.