WASHINGTON D.C. (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Illinois’ lieutenant governor was in Washington D.C. Tuesday, telling a Senate committee about the impact that the overturning of Roe v. Wade has had on Illinois, a state where abortion is legal.
Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Illinois and other states that allow abortions are going to need more federal money to handle the influx of patients from states where abortions are illegal.
“The overturning of Roe v Wade has sent us down a dark, agonizing path,” Stratton said.
And Stratton said Illinois had been prepared before that Supreme Court decision by bolstering reproductive rights.
“We are not just an oasis of reproductive care but an island and here’s what that looks like. It looks like disenfranchised yet determined patients coming from every surrounding state but also as far away as Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Florida,” said Stratton
The chief medical officer of the St. Louis area Planned Parenthood told senators that almost overnight its Illinois clinic has seen appointments triple.
Iowa’s Senator Chuck Grassley said at that hearing that the overturning of Roe corrected a wrong that has impacted millions of lives.
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