Many women with high-risk pregnancies can’t get abortions in their home states. Illinois welcomes them.

As states across much of the South and Midwest banned or further restricted abortions after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022, they fueled a wave of people with high-risk pregnancies traveling to hospitals in Chicago. The prohibitions also spurred a group of doctors, hospitals, a nonprofit and the state of Illinois to try to make a challenging and expensive journey a little easier. “We’re really viewed as … one of the places of last resort,” said Dr. Laura Laursen, an OB/GYN…