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    Island of Choice

    Jul 20, 2019 3 minutes
    By EDWARD McCLELLAND
    Illustration by JOSIE PORTILLO

    DRIVERS CROSSING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER EASTBOUND ON I-55 ARE GREETED BY THIS billboard: “Welcome to Illinois, where you can get a safe, legal abortion.”

    The billboard is an advertisement for the Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City, but it also recognizes that the Mississippi divides two states that are moving in opposite directions on abortion. Missouri recently passed a “heartbeat bill,” which bans abortion after a fetus is eight weeks old, and only a court order prevented the

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