Preparing for a post-Roe America
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 28 March 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
As more and more states move to restrict abortion rights, and the Supreme Court weighs whether to overturn Roe v. Wade, we look at how clinics in blue states are preparing for an influx of patients from across state lines.
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On today’s episode of Post Reports, national politics reporter Caroline Kitchener takes us inside a clinic on the Illinois side of the Illinois-Missouri border, where abortion providers are working to build a blue-state abortion refuge for patients from across the South and Midwest. Many of the more conservative states surrounding Illinois are moving to restrict abortion access as the Supreme Court considers whether to limit or overturn the protections of Roe v. Wade.
The Post is tracking legislation that aims to restrict abortion across the country — 15-week bans, Texas-style bans, trigger laws and abortion pill bans — as well as what’s happening in the Democratic-dominated states moving to protect access to abortion.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, well, well, well. |
| 0:07.0 | Regional Logistics Center, this is Alex. |
| 0:10.1 | So a couple of weeks ago, I went to the Missouri Illinois border, just a couple of miles into |
| 0:15.7 | Illinois. |
| 0:16.7 | It's a town called Fairview Heights. |
| 0:18.8 | This is Caroline Kitchener. |
| 0:20.1 | She's a national political reporter for the post. |
| 0:22.7 | They went to this really first of its kind call center where people employ as a plant |
| 0:29.5 | parenthood are getting on the phone with patients and trying to connect them with the resources |
| 0:34.8 | they need to one, pay for their abortions and two, pay for the hotel, transportation, |
| 0:42.3 | everything that they need to be able to get to their appointment. |
| 0:46.0 | From wherever they are in the country, whether that's Missouri or much farther afield. |
| 0:56.1 | When Caroline was there at this call center that sits inside a massive clinic on the Illinois |
| 1:01.2 | side of the Illinois Missouri border, she spent time with the woman named Alex. |
| 1:06.1 | Alex answers phones at the call center and helps people figure things out. |
| 1:17.2 | The reason she's able to do that is because she is an Illinois, which is a state that |
| 1:21.5 | has way more progressive laws around abortion than its surrounding states, which means that |
| 1:26.5 | people seeking an abortion who are in those other states, they get routed to Alex. |
| 1:31.9 | With this screening, I'm able to offer you 112 for financial assistance. |
| 1:36.1 | With you being a Missouri resident, I can give you an additional 58 off. |
| 1:41.9 | More and more states are putting up barriers to abortion. |
| 1:45.1 | The Supreme Court is considering whether to overturn or limit the protections of Roe v. Wade. |
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