Six billboards with messages supporting abortion rights have been placed along Interstate 55, a highway traveled by many women from the South who seek abortion care in Illinois.
Audio will be available later today.Memphis hairstylist and abortion rights advocate Queen visits a new billboard on Interstate 55 in Arkansas, placed by the group Shout Your Abortion. She says messages such as"God's Plan Includes Abortion" give"courage" and"strength" to those traveling on this road to the closest abortion clinic for thousands of southern women.
The new billboard is one of six paid for by Seattle-based Shout Your Abortion. Its founder Amelia Bonow says this route in particular — leading to the only legal providers within hundreds of miles — needed a counterpoint to the billboards opposing abortion. The group's founder, Mary Ann Kuharski, said their billboards generate about 500 calls per month, with a slight increase since the Dobbs Supreme Court decision.
"That's what these laws do," contends Bonow."They don't actually stop people from having abortions, but they make people struggle in order to have abortions."Some former abortion providers now offer what are called"navigational services." Ashley Coffield, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, says for some young clients living in poverty it's their first time ever traveling beyond the city limits.
Jennifer Pepper, executive director of Memphis-based CHOICES, a reproductive health center that moved its abortion services here a year ago, says the vast majority of its clients come from Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee.
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