Planned Parenthood provides a majority of abortions in Oregon. (Lynne Terry/Oregon Capital Chronicle)
LaDonna Prince’s new reproductive care clinic in Illinois was supposed to be open more than a year ago.
Prince and her staff were prepared for Indiana to ban abortion, and started trying to move operations to Danville, Illinois, in 2023. It’s about 90 minutes across the border from her old clinic in Indianapolis, which provided abortion care for more than 40 years before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 and allowed states to regulate abortion access. Today, 12 states — including Indiana — have a near-total ban on abortion, and four states have a six-week ban, before many people know they are pregnant.
Now that abortion access nationwide may be threatened by the second administration of President-elect Donald Trump and Republican-controlled chambers of Congress, Prince is determined to open the clinic at the beginning of 2025.
“It’s scary, to be honest with you,” Prince said during a press conference in early December. “It’s just really frightening.”