Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday the city will use $500,000 to help ensure Chicago remains a haven for those in need of an abortion and other forms of reproductive health care threatened by an expected Supreme Court decision.
by Politico that showed five of justices have voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that created a constitutional right to abortion. A final decision is expected to be announced by the end of June.
The funds — which were already approved by the City Council as part of the Chicago Department of Public Health’s budget — will be used to help organizations like Chicago Abortion Fund and the Midwest Access Coalition provide transportation, housing, care “and, if necessary, safe and legal access to an abortion procedure,” Lightfoot said.
“Prior to the legalization of abortion, tens of thousands of women wound up in emergency rooms every year from botched, illegal abortions,” Arwady said. “Not all of them survived. We must never go back to that time.” At the conclusion of Monday’s news conference — the third time in six days that Lightfoot has publicly vowed to protect the right to an abortion — Lightfoot signed what she called a “Justice for All Pledge,” putting that promise in writing.
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