May 16, 2022

Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Announces Plans to make City an "Abortion Oasis"

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D)
As one of many pro-abortion politicians preparing for a potential decision from the US Supreme Court overruling Roe v. Wade, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has announced her plan to make the windy city an "oasis" for abortion.

Lightfoot announced that the Chicago Department of Public Health will spend $500,000 to subsidize the transportation expenses of women traveling from other states to get abortions. The funds are expected to pay for lodging, transportation, and food among other things.

“We’re expecting, frankly, an explosion of new cases from women in Wisconsin, Missouri, potentially Michigan, Indiana,” Lightfoot told MSNBC. Some of those states have existing laws that would prohibit abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned. Others have the potential to implement such laws. “I think the list is long, and Chicago is going to be an oasis in the Midwest, and we have got to be ready,” the mayor continued.


Lightfoot went on to echo President Biden's false claim that the leaked draft decision would undermine rights that don't involve ending the lives of innocent children.

“If you look at that draft opinion and you look at the briefs in support of the appellants, they’re going after every right that has been recognized that arises from a right of privacy,” she said. “Whether it’s a right to contraception, the right for same-sex marriage, interracial marriage.”

The leaked draft opinion, authored by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, clearly articulates that it does not change any rulings other than those issued in regard to abortion specifically. "None of the other decisions cited by Roe and Casey involved the critical moral question posed by abortion," the leaked draft opinion reads. "They do not support the right to obtain an abortion, and by the same token, our conclusion that the Constitution does not confer such a right does not undermine them in any way."

Lightfoot doubled down on her claim. "To my friends in the LGBTQ+ community—the Supreme Court is coming for us next. This moment has to be a call to arms," she wrote in a tweet. "We will not surrender our rights without a fight—a fight to victory!"