Source: Eric Lutz, Vanity Fair
States like Illinois, which have been bracing for restrictions on abortion, are preparing to become safe havens for reproductive rights. “I now feel a responsibility,” says one Illinois rep, “to women outside of my own borders.”
“We are an island,” says Democrat Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, an Illinois state representative who as a freshman lawmaker helped get the Reproductive Health Act and other pro-choice legislation get to Pritzker’s desk. “I think our sense of responsibility feels larger, because as an Illinois legislator, I now feel a responsibility to women outside of my own borders.”
“The universe is no longer just my backyard,” Gong-Gershowitz adds.