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Story No. 233: Patient from Illinois
I was an 18-year-old, out-of-state college student when I decided to have sex for the first time. My mother had passed away the year before, […]
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Story No. 204: Provider from Illinois
Being an abortion provider in Chicago, we have women come to us from adjacent states because they are unable to access care in their home […]
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Story No. 197: Kristen from Illinois
When I was a college student in the mid ‘90s, Planned Parenthood was a life-saver. I used their services for affordable, routine gynecological care that […]
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Story No. 181: Dr. Sloane from Illinois
The state of Illinois recently passed House Bill 40, legislation that will protect the legal right to abortion in Illinois and expands abortion access for […]
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Story No. 179: Rep. Jan Schakowsky from Illinois
The state of Illinois recently passed House Bill 40, legislation that will protect the legal right to abortion in Illinois and expands abortion access for […]
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Story No. 162: Provider from Illinois
We are very fortunate in Illinois to have Medicaid coverage for abortion for women under various circumstances. It was so wonderful to have this option […]
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Story No. 144: Dr. Ellie from Illinois
My patient Lydia is a woman in her early thirties with four kids. Two of her children are twins. One of her twins was always […]
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Story No. 89: Provider from Illinois
Warning: This post contains a graphic description of an unsafe abortion in the years before Roe v. Wade. When I was a young woman in […]