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 statistics offer a glimpse at the rise in travel for abortion seekers in a post-Roe nation, though the data doesn't include information on the states where patients are coming from or the distances traveled.
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