Abortions can resume again in Missouri. On Thursday, Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Jerri Zhang issued a temporary injunction against several of the state’s abortion regulations, ruling that they likely violate the voter-passed constitutional amendment that...
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...
The Trump Administration is asking a federal judge to dismiss Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s lawsuit that seeks to restrict access to a popular abortion drug. The U.S. Supreme Court allowed access to the abortion drug last year. And last December,...
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...
