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Health
Logistics center will help abortion seekers get to Illinois
With abortion access increasingly restricted across much of the South and Midwest, two Illinois clinics near St. Louis announced Friday…
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Health
GOP lawmakers renew effort to bar Planned Parenthood from Missouri Medicaid
After the issue ground legislative work to a halt last year, Missouri Republican lawmakers plan to renew their efforts to…
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Politics
State lawmaker’s anti-abortion bill mirrors new Texas law
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — A Republican state representative has introduced legislation that would ban nearly all abortions in Missouri, mirroring…
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Health
Conflict over abortion laws won’t abate if Roe v. Wade falls
On both sides of America’s abortion debate, activists are convinced that Roe v. Wade — the 1973 Supreme Court ruling…
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News
Abortion rights at stake in historic Supreme Court arguments
WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion rights are on the line at the Supreme Court in historic arguments over the landmark ruling nearly 50…
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Health
Conflict over abortion laws won’t abate if Roe v. Wade falls
On both sides of America’s abortion debate, activists are convinced that Roe v. Wade — the 1973 Supreme Court ruling…
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Religion
Catholic Bishops OK Communion document, avoid direct rebuff to Biden
BALTIMORE (AP) — U.S. Catholic bishops overwhelmingly approved on Wednesday a long-anticipated document on Communion that stops short of calling…
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Politics
McCloskey against abortions for young rape or incest victims
(AP) — Missouri Republican Mark McCloskey, who is running for the U.S. Senate, said he did not support allowing abortions…
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Health
New rules on Missouri abortion regulations kick in
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Planned Parenthood leaders condemned new regulations on Missouri abortion providers that took effect Wednesday. Yamelsie Rodríguez,…
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News
Supreme Court justices are back at court for new term
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court returned to the courtroom Monday for the start of a momentous new term, after a…
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Politics
Ex-Rep. Akin, sunk by ‘legitimate rape’ remark, dies at 74
Former U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, a conservative Missouri Republican whose comment that women’s bodies have a way of avoiding pregnancies…
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News
U.S. Supreme Court gets set to address abortion, guns and religion
The Supreme Court begins its annual term on Oct. 4, 2021, with a packed agenda highlighted by three claims of…
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Women
Bush, other Congressional members share own abortion stories at hearing
Three Democratic members of Congress offered deeply personal testimony about their own abortions as a congressional committee examined on Thursday…
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Women
Missouri abortion law leads to court battle over referendums
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — A Missouri law seeking to ban most abortions after eight weeks of pregnancy led to a…
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Politics
State Supreme Court to rule on abortion initiative maneuver
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday about whether Secretary of State Jay…
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News
Medication abortion becomes latest GOP target
Medication abortion accounts for about 40% of all abortions in the U.S. The increasingly common method relies on pills rather…
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Women
Federal court hears arguments on Missouri abortion ban with no rape, incest exception
The fate of Missouri’s ban on abortion after eight weeks of pregnancy, with no exception for rape or incest, rests in…
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Politics
U.S. Supreme Court sets Dec. 1 oral arguments in major abortion case
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Dec. 1 in a case that threatens to overturn decades…
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Health
Missouri lawmakers may consider copying Texas abortion law
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature could soon be considering legislation similar to a new Texas law that bans most…
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Religion
Pre-modern Christian attitudes on marriage, reproductive rights were quite different
The U.S. Supreme Court has failed to rule on an emergency application to block SB8, a controversial Texas law that bans abortions…
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Health
Texas bans most abortions, with high court mum on appeal
The nation’s most far-reaching curb on abortions since they were legalized a half-century ago took effect Wednesday in Texas, with…
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Politics
Parson joins legal push to convince Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade
Gov. Mike Parson has added his name to the growing list of GOP elected officials asking the U.S. Supreme Court…
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Crime
Federal appeals court will review decision in Missouri abortion ban lawsuit
In a move long-time legal observers say is unusual, the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will, on its own motion, review a…
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Politics
Missouri AG asks U.S. Supreme Court to hear abortion restrictions
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to review an appeals court decision blocking a…
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Politics
Medicaid provider tax bill gets Missouri House’s OK
With fewer than 12 hours to spare before the start of a new fiscal year, the Missouri House approved on…
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Politics
Missouri Senate OKs Medicaid funding, rejects push to ban Planned Parenthood
A bipartisan coalition handed anti-abortion activists a rare defeat in the Missouri Senate Friday night, rejecting a push to ban Planned…
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Politics
Parson calls special session, setting up debate on contraceptives, Planned Parenthood
A special session to extend provider taxes essential to the state’s Medicaid program will begin at noon Wednesday, Gov. Mike Parson announced…
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Politics
Federal appeals court upholds injunction blocking eight-week abortion ban
A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s decision to block a Missouri law criminalizing abortions after eight…
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Politics
Parson replaces administrative judge who heard abortion case
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, has replaced the administrative law judge who ruled against the…
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Opinion
Jaco: Missouri diverts tax dollars for the needy to anti-abortion extremists
The pro-Trump Tea Party white “populist” rage that fuels Missouri’s governing GOP super-majority has kept one principle from the old…
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