... As the nation approaches the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, Equity Clinic is among a wave of new abortion providers that have sought haven in Illinois, one of the few states with strong reproductive rights protections remaining in the largely restrictive Midwest. The post-Roe migration of abortion providers to Illinois follows a national pattern of clinics and medical providers fleeing states with abortion bans or tight gestational limits and resettling in parts of the country where terminating a pregnancy is still legal. ...