Illinois launches service to connect complex abortion cases with needed medical care
Gov. J.B. Pritzker hugs Megan Jeyifo, executive director of the Chicago Abortion Fund, after he announced expanded reproductive health care protections, July 31, 2023, at University of Illinois at Chicago's Student Center West.
As the number of out-of-state abortion seekers has surged in Illinois following the fall of Roe in June 2022, reproductive rights activists say they’re also seeing more abortion patients with complications requiring hospital care. The state is estimating the CARLA program will cost $600,000 in the first year, with the money coming from the Healthcare and Family Services budget, according to the governor’s office.
Also announced was a $5 million grant program through the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to help abortion providers pay for improvements, repairs, new facilities and security upgrades, among other costs associated with the influx of patients from out of state. Dr. Jonah Fleisher, an obstetrician-gynecologist and co-director of the program, described recently treating a patient from a neighboring state who was 18 weeks pregnant and required hospital care because providers at a clinic suspected her placenta was attached to her uterus abnormally, a dangerous condition called placenta accreta.
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