USA – As Abortion Access Shrinks, Hospitals Fill in the Gaps

By Allison McCann, Photographs by Jamie Kelter Davis
Oct. 23, 2023
For this article, Allison McCann and Jamie Kelter Davis spent time with a patient from Indiana as she underwent an abortion at a Chicago hospital.

A. wanted a cheeseburger and to go home. She had made the three-hour trip from Indianapolis to Chicago a day earlier and had been at the hospital since 6:30 a.m., with an empty stomach, waiting to be taken into an operating room to have an abortion.

It was her second trip to Chicago in two weeks, and the third time she had tried to end her pregnancy.

Continued: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/23/us/abortion-hospitals.html

Abortion bans are fueling a rise in high-risk patients heading to Illinois hospitals

August 23, 2023
By Kristen Schorsch
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When she was around 22 weeks pregnant, the patient found out that the son she was carrying didn't have kidneys and his lungs wouldn't develop. If he survived the birth, he would struggle to breathe and die within hours.

The patient had a crushing decision to make: continue the pregnancy — which could be a risk to her health and her ability to have children in the future — or have an abortion.

Continued: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/08/23/1193898181/abortion-bans-are-fueling-a-rise-in-high-risk-patients-heading-to-illinois-hospi