% WEB PAGE.
% >>> PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF
% WISCONSIN SUSPENDED ITS ABORTION
% SERVICES IMMEDIATELY UPON THE
% SUPREME COURT DECISION
% OVERTURNING ROE V. WADE.
% THE PROVIDER HAS PATIENT
% NAVIGATORS TO HELP PEOPLE FIND
% OUT-OF-STATE OPTIONS, LIKE THOSE
% ACROSS THE BORDER IN ILLINOIS,
% WHERE ABORTION REMAINS LEGAL.
% WE ECONOMIC IN WITH JULIE UHAL
% OF PRIND OF ILLINOIS WHO
% MANAGE -- PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF
% ILLINOIS WHO MANAGES ITS
% PROGRAM.%THANKS SO MUCH FOR B
EING HERE.
% >> VERY FOR HAVING ME ON TODAY.
% >> WHAT KIND OF INFLUX HAS
% PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS
% SEEN FROM BOARDING STATES LIKE
% WISCONSIN?
% >> THANKS FOR ASKING THAT.
% WE'RE PREPARING FOR THIS MOMENT
% FOR A REALLY LONG TIME.
% AND PROJECTIONS HAVE SHOWN THAT
% WE'RE ANTICIPATING SEEING UP TO
% 20 TO 30,000 ADDITIONAL PATIENTS
% FROM OTHER STATES.
% IT WILL TAKE A LONG TIME TO SEE
% EXACT NUMBERS AND TRENDS.
% IT'S ONLY BEEN A WEEK.
% FEELS LIKE FIVE YEARS SINCE THE
% DECISION CAME DOWN.
% BUT I CAN SURE THAT OUR CALL
% VOLUME DOUBLED ON FRIDAY AND
% SATURDAY, INCLUDING FROM
% WISCONSIN PATIENTS WHO LIKE YOU
% SAID MAY HAVE BEEN AT THE CLINIC
% FOR AN APPOINTMENT LAST FRIDAY
% AND WERE FORCED TO RESCHEDULE
% THAT AND IT CREATED A LOT OF
% CHAOS AND CONFUSION.
% >> INDEED.
% YOU'RE SECURING ACCESS FOR
% EVERYONE OR SAFE PROGRAM.
% DID YOU STAND THIS UP JUST FOR
% THIS EVENTUALITY OR HAS IT BEEN
% LONG STANDING?
% >> IT WAS FOR THIS EVENTUALITY.
% WE'VE SEEN THE WRITING ON THE
% WALLS FOR YEARS NOW, KNOWING
% THAT YOU KNOW, FAR RIGHT
% CONSERVATIVES HAVE BEEN PLANNING
% TO OVERTURN ABORTION ACCESS IN
% THIS COUNTRY.
% SO THE PROGRAM OFFICIALLY
% STARTED IN 2019.
% >> SO PLANNED PARENTHOOD HAS
% PATIENT NAVIGATORS TO HELP WITH
% OUT-OF-STATE ABORTION CARE.
% HOW DOES THAT WORK EXACTLY?
% >> SO A PATIENT NAVIGATOR IS
% KIND OF LIKE A CASE MANAGER,
% KIND OF LIKE THE TRAVEL AGENT.
% AND THEIR JOB IS SPECIFICALLY TO
% WORK WITH PATIENTS WHO FACE
% LOGISTICAL BARRIERS TO ACCESS
% ABORTION CARE.
% AND AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, THAT'S
% GOING TO BECOME MORE COMPLICATED
% AND DIFFICULT AS THEY'RE FORCED
% TO TRAVEL FURTHER.
% IT GENDS PATIENT BY PATIENT WHAT
% SORT OF ASSISTANCE THEY NEED.
% SOMETIMES IT'S SUBSIDY,
% SOMETIMES IT'S HOTEL, CHILD
% CARE, FOOD VOUCHERS AND GOOD
% VOUCHER.%WE TRY TO ASSIST ANY
OF THOSE
% NEEDS THEY MIGHT BE FACING.
% >> I READ THAT ANTIABORTION
% GROUPS ARE DRAFTING MODEL
% LEGISLATION TO ALLOW PRIVATE
% CITIZENS THE RIGHT TO SUE FOR
% ANYONE TERMINATING A PREGNANCY
% OUT OF STATE.
% WHAT'S YOUR REACTION TO THAT?
% >> I'M DISAPPOINTED BUT NOT
% SURPRISED.%I THINK THAT THEY
HAVE BEEN
% TESTING EVERY OUTLET THEY CAN IN
% ORDER TO CRIMINALIZE FOLKS FOR
% ACCESSING THAT HEALTHCARE THAT
% THEY NEED.
% BUT YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT GOING TO
% STOP AND WE'RE COMMITTED TO
% HELPING PEOPLE ACCESS THAT CARE
% HOWEVER WE CAN.
% >> HOW IS SAFETY ENSURED FOR
% WOMEN WHO MIGHT TRAVEL FROM
% THEIR HOME STATES FOR AN
% ABORTION PROCEDURE?
% >> SO I JUST WANT TO EMPHASIZE
% THAT ABORTION IS SAFE AND
% EFFECTIVE.%IT IS CERTAINLY SA
FER THAN
% PREGNANCY OR CHILDBIRTH IS.
% THE MEDICATION ABORTION PILL
% SPECIFICALLY HAS A LOWER RATE OF
% ADVERSE SIDE EFFECTS THAN
% TYLENOL DOES.
% ANY SAFETY CONCERNS COME FROM
% THE VERY VULNERABLE SITUATIONS,
% PEOPLE WILL BE PUT IN WHEN
% THEY'RE FACING CRIMINALIZATION
% TO CROSS STATE LINES FOR
% HEALTHCARE, BUT WE TAKE EVERY
% STEP THAT WE CAN IN ORDER TO
% EDUCATE OUR PATIENTS ABOUT THOSE
% RISKS AND MAKE SURE THAT THEIR
% CAN THE SHAFT AND --
% CONFIDENTIALITY AND PRIVACY IS
% PROTECTED.
% >> IF SOMEONE CAME FROM
% WISCONSIN AND HAD THEIR
% PREGNANCY TERMINATED, DO THEY
% STAY IN PLACE FOR A PERIOD OF
% TIME TO BE MONITORED -- YOU'RE
% SAYING IT'S EXTREMELY SAFE,
% RIGHT.%BUT IS THERE KIND OF A
PERIOD OF
% TIME WHERE THEY STAY IN PLACE IN
% ILLINOIS?
% >> DEPENDING ON WHETHER THEY'RE
% SEEKING MEDICATION OR INCLINIC
% ABORTION, YEAH, THEY'LL BE AT
% THE CLINIC TO BE MONITORED FOR
% ANY IMMEDIATE HEALTH CONCERNS
% ASSOCIATED WITH THAT.
% BUT OTHERWISE, OUR -- PERSON
% FOLLOWING THE PROGRAM IS ALWAYS
% REACHABLE BY PHONE OR ONLINE.
% >> IS YOUR CLINIC HIRING PEOPLE
% TO ASSIST WITH THIS INNUX OF
% PATIENTS?%>> I CAN'T SHARE A
NY SPECIFICS
% ABOUT OPERATIONAL, BUT THIS
% RESPONSE TO THIS HEALTH CRISIS
% IS GOING TO BE A MARATHON, NOT A
% SPRINT.%SO WE'RE WORKING REA
LLY CLOSELY
% WITH ALL OF OUR PARTNERS AROUND
% THE MIDWEST REGION TO ENSURE
% THAT PATIENTS HAVE ACCESS TO THE
% CARE THEY NEED NO MEAT WHERE
% THEY'RE COMING FROM -- NO MATTER
% WHERE THEY'RE COMING FROM I AND
% THERE WILL BE MORE.
% >> IS IT ACCURATE THAT THERE'S A
% PLANNED PARENTHOOD JUST ACROSS
% THE BORDER IN SOUTH BELOIT,
% ILLINOIS?%>> I'M NOT FAMILIA
R -- IF THERE
% IS, IT'S NOT A PBIL CLINIC.
% OUR CLINIC CLOSEST TO THE
% WISCONSIN BORDER IS IN WAUKEGAN.
% >> JULIE FROM PLANNED PARENTHOOD
% OF ILLINOIS, THANKS SO MUCH.