As Missouri restricts abortion, Planned Parenthood opens massive new clinic across the border

Planned Parenthood will open a large facility in southern Illinois to help the women’s health-care provider meet a surging demand from Missouri, which has only one abortion provider for a state of more than 6 million people.

The 18,000-square-foot Fairview Heights facility was constructed in secret, CBS News first reported, and would be able to accommodate 11,000 patients a year. It will start taking its first patients later this month.