Abortion

State Rep. Deb Lavender makes her case on why she can turn the historically Republican 15th Senate District blue. Lavender's bid to unseat GOP Sen. Andrew Koenig in the St. Louis County-based district is arguably the most competitive Missouri legislative contest of 2020.

The Missouri Department of Social Services must pay Planned Parenthood for providing care for Medicaid patients, the state Supreme Court ruled…

Missouri’s admitting-privilege requirement has survived several court challenges, most recently when a federal judge in Kansas City refused to block the law.

Planned Parenthood has regained its license to perform abortions at its St. Louis clinic.The Missouri Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday…

Updated at 6:10 p.m., May 29 with comment from Planned Parenthood officialsThe last clinic providing abortions in Missouri can remain open, a state…

Democrats in the Missouri House are fighting to undo a state requirement for abortion providers to perform pelvic exams prior to abortions.Legislation…

Gov. Mike Parson says his biggest success so far as the state’s chief executive is passing legislation that expanded Missouri’s workforce development…

The top administrator at Missouri’s sole abortion provider testified during the last day of a hearing that state officials had become increasingly…

The chief doctor at Planned Parenthood’s St. Louis clinic testified during a high-profile regulatory hearing on Wednesday that the abortions performed…

On the first day of an administrative hearing that could determine the fate of Missouri’s sole abortion clinic, attorneys for the state questioned the…