The efforts from Democratic-led states include shield laws that prohibit patients and providers from facing legal consequences for abortion procedures.
Two years after the Supreme Court ended federal protections for abortion care, some Democratic-led states have moved to combat the restrictive laws on the procedure that have been enacted in Republican-led states. According to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group which supports reproductive rights, 14 states now have near-total abortion bans, forcing many women to travel out-of-state for the procedure.
In the first half of 2023, Illinois saw the largest increase in the number of out-of-state patients seeking abortion care of any state, according to data from the Guttmacher Institute. In that period, it saw 18,870 out-of-state patients, more than triple what it saw during the same period in 2020. In May 2022, just prior to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Democratic Connecticut Gov.
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