Planned Parenthood launching mobile abortion clinic in Illinois to boost access in Missouri
In an effort to fortify access to abortion throughout the Midwest and in Missouri, where the procedure is almost entirely…
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Planned Parenthood gets OK to amend lawsuit against state over Medicaid payments
A trial on the state’s restricted Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood will be delayed until December, after the reproductive health…
Doctors fear vague emergency exception to Missouri abortion ban puts patients at risk
Some Missouri medical providers are fearful that patients with high-risk pregnancies will face delayed care in life-threatening situations because doctors…
State abortion ban does not prohibit Plan B nor contraception, Missouri AG says
After at least one hospital system in Missouri stopped providing emergency contraception because of ambiguity in the state’s abortion ban,…
With abortion illegal in Missouri, providers look to next frontier to ensure access
Angela Huntington’s phone was constantly ringing off of the hook. When Texas’ fetal heartbeat ban on abortions went into effect…
Missouri now permits abortion only in cases of ‘medical emergency’ – but not rape, incest
ST. LOUIS – Shaking her head in disbelief while sitting at Missouri’s last remaining abortion clinic, U.S. Rep. Cori Bush,…
Health agency appeals ruling requiring it to pay Planned Parenthood legal fees
Missouri’s health department is appealing a Cole County judge’s ruling that put the state on the hook to pay at…
GOP eyes amending Missouri constitution to ensure no right to abortion exists post-Roe
If a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade holds true, nearly all abortions in Missouri would become illegal. But…
Judge orders DHSS to pay Planned Parenthood’s legal fees in license dispute
A Cole County judge denied the state health department’s attempt to relitigate a case stemming from a 2019 licensing dispute…
With few in-state abortions, Missouri lawmakers look toward a post-Roe v. Wade future
As restrictions on accessing an abortion in Missouri have steadily tightened, nearly 9,800 Missourians travelled to Kansas and Illinois to…
Control of Title X federal family planning funds remains with Missouri nonprofit
Despite facing competition from state health department, the nonprofit Missouri Family Health Council Inc. will continue to administer federal Title…
Missouri could make it harder to get out-of-state abortions
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — First-of-its-kind Missouri legislation shows that anti-abortion lawmakers in Republican-led states aren’t likely to stop at banning…
Planned Parenthood sues Missouri social services agency over restricted Medicaid funds
Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit Thursday against Missouri’s Department of Social Services, alleging the agency unlawfully plans to restrict Medicaid…
State argues it shouldn’t pay Planned Parenthood’s legal fees in licensing dispute
Its effort to deny Planned Parenthood a license to perform abortions in Missouri was unsuccessful, but the state health department…
Missouri Senate passes $4.6B spending bill with federal school funds, pay raises
With a deadline looming that could cost Missouri almost $2 billion in federal education aid, the bill to distribute the money passed the…
State health agency seeks control of Title X funds that go to Planned Parenthood
Missouri’s state health department has applied to oversee federal family planning funds, a move reproductive health advocates fear would give…