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Nearly 10,000 women traveled from out of state to have an abortion in Illinois in 2020 — a 29% increase
Chicago Tribune ^ | JAN 25, 2022 | Angie Leventis Lourgos

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: abortion; illinois; prolife
The story is current but the statistics lag, and it illustrates one thing.

The government of Illinois is positioning the state as the regional abortion capital.

1 posted on 01/25/2022 5:32:42 AM PST by Salman
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So Illinois is not just the murder capital of America, they want to make themselves the baby killing capital too.


2 posted on 01/25/2022 5:39:44 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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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.

3 posted on 01/25/2022 5:44:31 AM PST by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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Everybody wants to be best at something

Even if it's best at killing people. Chuckle.

4 posted on 01/25/2022 5:55:59 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Salman

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.


5 posted on 01/25/2022 6:22:30 AM PST by Renfrew
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Illinois badly needs to attract business investment, perhaps they could put “The Abortion State” on license plates?


6 posted on 01/25/2022 6:53:40 AM PST by babble-on
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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

Over 125 babies murdered each day. They couldn't have killed more if they used a Gatling Gun.

7 posted on 01/25/2022 7:04:04 AM PST by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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If it simply adds to the “inconvenience” of terminating a child... well, that’s something.


8 posted on 01/25/2022 7:09:59 AM PST by corkoman
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Gee, what a shame to make those poor women to have to travel that far to kill their baby.


9 posted on 01/25/2022 7:11:39 AM PST by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti Astronomers see white dwarf 'switch on and off' for first time)
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Driveby killers and now baby killers. It’s like Illinois has become the Death State.


10 posted on 01/25/2022 8:53:46 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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Quite a decline for the state that produced the great Henry Hyde.


11 posted on 01/25/2022 10:05:06 PM PST by Catholic and Conservative
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