Posted on 05/31/2022 6:21:52 AM PDT by Salman
The Illinois Department of Public Health has long shielded from the public the full picture of who gets an abortion in this state.
The department provides some statistics online, including the county where Illinois patients live, the states where other patients come from, age groups and even whether they’re married. But patients’ race and ethnicity — a key metric that helps illuminate potential disparities, identify trends and plug in gaps in health care — has never been revealed.
It’s not clear whether this restriction is legal. A 2013 state rule forbids releasing even aggregate data, meaning a summary of information about race and ethnicity as well as a batch of other metrics about patients who receive abortions. But that rule is tied to a law that no longer exists. Now, after WBEZ inquired, the Illinois Department of Public Health said it is looking into whether this information should be made public.
“IDPH is reviewing the implications of the statute,” a public health department spokesman said in a statement. “We need a bit more time to ensure we are being as transparent as possible while following the law and protecting patient privacy.”
Illinois is one of 22 states that in the most recent reporting year withheld race and ethnicity data about abortion patients from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or whose data didn’t meet reporting standards.
As Illinois prepares for a possible influx of tens of thousands more out-of-state patients seeking abortions — in the event Roe v. Wade is overturned — providers are trying to figure out if there’s going to be enough access to care, particularly in communities of color where access is already poor.
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They act like abortion clinics are the only place for “women’s health “.
The ones getting abortions may be poor but some people are getting rich off of it.
They are apparently unable to get an ID and or vote at a precinct but they somehow can make it to an abortion center?
why would they keep track
And buy booze and cigarettes.
It is anticipated they will be bussed in from all over.
Of course they do....in this day and age of contraceptive methods ,inner city women have decided abortion clinics are the go to birth control which of course make them look irresponsible and propagates many “steroetypes”. Sooooooo....
Do they keep gender hidden? I saw a pregnant man on a flash card on tee vee this am.
Well, the only “healthcare” they care about are abortions and vaccines, because those are politicized.
Thomas Sowell
@ThomasSowell
Planned Parenthood was founded not simply as an organization for limiting the size of families in general but more particularly to reduce the reproduction of the black population in the United States, as Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger herself noted.
8:44 AM · Jun 26, 2020
For the same reason the Nazis did.
i genuinely was asking WHY. i don’t know what the Nazis did.
thanks
You’re welcome.
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