Illinois will create a $10 million hotline for abortion access twill
On Tuesday, Indiana will join Missouri and Kentucky in its near-total ban on the procedure, while court battles are ongoing over Republican attempts to restrict abortion in Iowa and Wisconsin. Pritzker said Illinois Democrats had been preparing for such a reality even before last summer's landmark Supreme Court decision.
The state's spending plan also included $8 million in additional training for reproductive health care providers and a specialty consultation program for at-risk patients. The hotline, dubbed the Complex Abortion Regional Line for Access, or CARLA, will be staffed by nurses who will aid patients through scheduling appointments within hospital systems and getting set up with any required preoperative testing. Additionally, CARLA's partnership with the Chicago Abortion Fund will help patients with funding for reproductive health services, plus any transportation and child care costs while getting and recovering from treatment.
"By the time she reached me weeks later, her pregnancy was more advanced and more complex, and she was extremely emotionally drained," she said."I'm so fortunate that I was able to take care of her at Rush, but the experience of reaching me didn't have to be so dramatic."
CARLA's startup costs for the first year come from $600,000 that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services already had in its budget, according to a spokesperson for Pritzker.
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