A Wisconsin doctor has acquired a pair of buildings in Northern Illinois. | Unsplash
A Wisconsin doctor has acquired a pair of buildings in Northern Illinois. | Unsplash
A Wisconsin doctor has acquired a pair of buildings in Northern Illinois, where he plans to perform surgical abortions at one and offer abortion pills at the other after all such services were brought to a halt in his home state last month with the Supreme Court’s overturning of federal abortion rights, Fox News reported.
Based on the high court’s actions, the state's 1849 law banning most abortions has been reestablished, while abortions remain legal in nearby Illinois.
Dr. Dennis Christensen told Fox News he is now part of a group working to revive abortion services in Rockford, Illinois, as part of an effort to accommodate women from the state of Wisconsin.
Christensen plans to begin making abortion pills available over the next few days and is hoping to be performing surgical abortions in Illinois at the former animal emergency clinic he purchased for $350,000 in as early as six months.
According to Fox News, the first facility purchased by Christensen for $75,000 was formerly an acupuncture office.
An obstetrician-gynecologist who has been performing abortions across Wisconsin for almost the last five decades, Christensen is now mostly retired. WIFR.com reports he performed his first abortion just five days after Roe v. Wade was passed.
By a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade on June 24, granting individual states the power to set their own abortion laws.
Christensen wasted little time speaking out against the verdict.
“I find it unbelievably irresponsible for the Supreme Court to interject their political aspirations into the health of my patients,” he told WIFR.com. “People are going to get their abortions one way or the other.”
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