Illinois abortion providers say they’re preparing for a surge of out-of-state patients after Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin announced a pause on terminations starting next week, as the nonprofit grapples with Medicaid funding cuts in President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill.

The move is the latest challenge to abortion access in neighboring Wisconsin, where the legality of ending a pregnancy — and availability of abortion care — has been in flux since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022.

Each time abortion is halted or restricted there, waves of abortion seekers cross state lines into Illinois, which has long been known as an oasis of reproductive rights in the increasingly restrictive Midwest.

While local abortion clinics and reproductive health advocates

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