Abortions in Missouri are on pause. The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a lower court applied the wrong standard in previous rulings that allowed abortions to resume after voters passed Amendment 3 last November. Missouri enacted a near-total abortion ban in...
Pro-choice and paid sick leave advocates rallied at the Missouri Capitol Thursday to protest the state legislature’s passage of two measures. First, a ballot measure that would make most abortions in Missouri illegal again, and a bill to overturn paid sick leave for...
A pair of Missouri House bills would open the way for murder charges to be filed over abortions. HB 1072 and HB 1417 are both entitled the “Missouri Prenatal Equal Protection Act.” It would allow prosecutors to charge both the mother and the doctor who...
The legal battle continues, but in the meantime, abortions have resumed in Missouri. On February 14, A Jackson County judge temporarily blocked a regulation requiring all abortion clinics to be licensed by the state. Republicans aren’t happy about it, while Democrats...
Abortions in Missouri have resumed after a Jackson County judge temporarily blocked a regulation requiring abortion clinics to be licensed with the state. Despite the ruling, Republican Senate leaders, including President Pro Tem Cindy O’Laughlin, R-Shelbina, have...
