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    Illinois abortions surged the year Roe fell, with nearly 17,000 patients traveling from other states — a 49% spike

    by Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune Jan 10, 2024 5 minutes
    Colleen McNicholas, chief medical officer of reproductive health services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, stands outside the Planned Parenthood health center in Fairview Heights in June.

    CHICAGO — More than 56,000 abortions were performed in Illinois the year the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, marking the most pregnancy terminations statewide since the mid-1990s, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health’s annual abortion statistics report.

    The rise in abortions that year was driven by a roughly 49% spike in out-of-state patients: Nearly 17,000 people came from other states to Illinois to terminate a pregnancy in 2022 compared with roughly 11,000 abortion seekers who traveled from other states in 2021, the data showed.

    In contrast, the number of Illinois residents having abortions in-state decreased slightly, from a little over 40,000 in 2021 to nearly 39,000 in 2022.

    Abortions overall increased by about 9% from 2021 to 2022, according to the report, which was released Tuesday and includes the most

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