June 2022 - Democrats for the Illinois House

“People Woke Up and Realized This Is Real”: Blue State Are Readying for a Post-Roe World.

By Democrats for the Illinois House | June 10, 2022

That legislative push helped turn Illinois into a national leader in reproductive healthcare. It is also likely to soon make it a refuge for people in states as far away as Texas, who will face even less access to abortion if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, as it is expected to do.

Kelly Cassidy saw this day coming. Some of her colleagues in the Illinois state general assembly thought she was being “hyperbolic,” she says — maybe even “hysterical.” But the Chicago…