Yamelsie Rodriguez describes it as an “act of defiance”.But more than that, the plan to open a mobile abortion clinic in the US state of Illinois aims to respond to what Rodriguez – president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the St Louis region and southwest Missouri – said is an increasingly urgent need for abortion services.Illinois has seen a dramatic jump in the number of patients travelling from states where abortion was banned or severely restricted after the United States Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to the procedure in June, she told Al Jazeera.
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