08.13.22

Duckworth on Chicago’s West Side: We Must Protect Reproductive Healthcare for All

U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today visited a Planned Parenthood Health Center in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood to meet with the facility’s leadership and staff and discuss how she will continue to support the clinic’s work from the federal level, including by working to enshrine access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare—including abortion—into law. With Roe now overturned and Illinois continuing to serve as a beacon for thousands of Americans traveling for abortions, Duckworth and the group also spoke about the now-intensified need to protect the privacy, emotional wellbeing and physical safety of Chicago’s expected influx of patients. The Senator and the group continued by discussing the clinic’s commitment to equitable healthcare in the predominately working and Black and Brown Austin community.