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Health
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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Health
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…
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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…
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Health
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,…
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Health
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…
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Politics
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,…
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Politics
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…
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Health
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…
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Politics
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…
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Health
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…
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Health
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…
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Politics
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…
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Health
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…
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Health
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…
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Politics
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…
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Health
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…
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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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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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Women
More turn to abortion pills by mail, with legality uncertain
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Before her daughter’s birth, the woman had spent weeks in bed. Another difficult pregnancy would be…
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Health
Planned Parenthood wants feds to block Missouri rule targeting its Medicaid funding
Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri is calling for President Joe Biden’s administration to intervene to…
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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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Health
New rules on Missouri abortion clinics set to take effect
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — The administration of Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, has enacted more rules on Missouri abortion clinics.…
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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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Opinion
Opinion: Medicaid’s financial history in Missouri
There is a fascinating history to Missouri’s recent special session to fix the legislature’s failure to continue one of the…
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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
Fate of Missouri Medicaid expansion in hands of state Supreme Court
After an eight-year fight over Medicaid expansion, the arguments are over. The question of whether 275,000 people will receive state-paid health care…
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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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