Posted on 01/25/2022 5:32:42 AM PST by Salman
Nearly 10,000 women traveled from out of state to have an abortion in Illinois in 2020, a roughly 29% increase compared with the previous year, according to the most recent Illinois Department of Public Health data available.
State health statistics show 9,686 out-of-state women terminated a pregnancy in Illinois in 2020, comprising about 21% of all 46,243 abortions performed statewide. This was over 2,000 more than the 7,534 women who came here from another state in 2019. State data from 2021 was not available.
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The government of Illinois is positioning the state as the regional abortion capital.
So Illinois is not just the murder capital of America, they want to make themselves the baby killing capital too.
Everybody wants to be best at something.
Even if it's best at killing people. Chuckle.
I fully support making abortion a state matter, but that does have a downside. I’m not sure if the number of abortions will decrease much if only red states ban them and travel to blue states remains an option.
Illinois badly needs to attract business investment, perhaps they could put “The Abortion State” on license plates?
Over 125 babies murdered each day. They couldn't have killed more if they used a Gatling Gun.
If it simply adds to the “inconvenience” of terminating a child... well, that’s something.
Gee, what a shame to make those poor women to have to travel that far to kill their baby.
Driveby killers and now baby killers. It’s like Illinois has become the Death State.
Quite a decline for the state that produced the great Henry Hyde.
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