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Under the proposed legislation, no public funds would be given to any clinic that provides abortions or its affiliate. Similar legislation has stalled in the Senate.
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Missouri’s highest court for the second time in four years rebuked lawmakers’s efforts to ban abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving Medicaid reimbursements.
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As amendments aimed at legalizing abortion in cases of rape or incest were voted down, one Republican state senator defended the decision saying, ‘God does not make mistakes.’
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Abortion rights advocates said cutting funding to Planned Parenthood would be a ‘devastating blow’ to Missouri's public health safety net.
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Lawyers representing the state are appealing a decision by a Circuit Court that ruled last December in Planned Parenthood’s favor.
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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey's office filed a brief arguing a trial court decision that forbid the state from zeroing out the Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood services should be reversed.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, U.S. Rep. Cori Bush and representatives from Planned Parenthood of St. Louis and other clinics that perform abortions in Illinois gathered in the same conference room where they first learned of the Dobbs decision last year.
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Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade last June, clinics in the Metro East that offer abortions have become a destination for thousands of patients seeking the procedure. Abortion providers at Planned Parenthood in Fairview Heights think legislators will make more attempts to regulate reproductive health.
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Transgender people in Missouri brace for sweeping restrictions to take effect April 27.
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The Republican-controlled Missouri legislature banned abortions in the state in 2022. But a U.S. Supreme Court decision could affect the availability the abortion drug mifepristone in the Metro East.