The high court’s June 24 ruling ended federal abortion protections, leaving the matter of abortion rights to be determined by individual states. Terminating a pregnancy remains legal in Illinois, which has strong reproductive rights protections in the Midwest.
A legal battle made headlines across the country, in part because the clinic was championed by then-Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, South Bend’s mayor at the time and the current U.S. Secretary of Transportation.