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When the Abortion Clinic Came to Town [1]
['Ava Sasani', 'Erin Schaff', 'More About Ava Sasani', 'More About Erin Schaff']
Date: 2022-11-30
At the end of October, Miracle, who asked to be identified only by her first name because of a fear of harassment, drove three and a half hours to Carbondale from Arkansas with her infant daughter to get an abortion. She said she had an intrauterine device, or IUD, inserted shortly after she gave birth to her daughter, but, less than a year later, her IUD failed and she was pregnant again. Like a majority of women who seek abortions, many of the clinic’s patients are already mothers.
When Miracle asked her doctor about her options, she said the doctor told her to pray about it.
She was thankful that she could afford to take time off work to make the drive across state lines, in large part because she owns her own business and does not have to request time off.
Anti-abortion groups from other states have also turned their attention to the Carbondale clinic. After abortion was banned in Missouri, Churches for Life, an organization based in St. Louis, began focusing on nearby states. The group is in contact with Mr. Surburg, the pastor from Marion, Ill.
In the 16 years that Mr. Surburg and his family have lived in Southern Illinois, he says he has felt insulated from the abortion debate. He was concerned to learn that another abortion provider, the Alamo Women’s Clinic, had recently opened, moving to Carbondale from Texas.
“There are a lot of churches that are concerned but are doing things in their own little silo,” Mr. Surburg said. He praised Churches for Life for coordinating protests against Choices, which have dwindled in size since the clinic first opened.
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