by admin | Aug 8, 2006 | Crime / Courts
The State Supreme Court says the State Health Department did have the power to contract with Planned Parenthood for family planning services in 2002 and 2003. The Court has rejected a challenge to the contracts and has rejected claims that Planned Parenthood has to...
by admin | Jul 26, 2006 | Health / Medicine, Politics / Govt
The United States Senate has passed Senator Talent’s bill making it a federal crime to take a minor across a state line for an abortion without parental consent. Talent co-sponsors the bill with Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, a fellow Republican. The bill is...
by admin | Jul 18, 2006 | News
A federal judge says the corrections department must allow abortions for any woman inmate who wants one….and must spend state money taking the inmate to the place where the abortion will take place. But the department will continue its fight in what is becoming...
by admin | Jul 18, 2006 | Crime / Courts, Health / Medicine
A court ruling that forced the state to transport a pregnant female prisoner to an abortion clnic last year has been made to apply to all women in Missouri prisons. Federal Judge Dean Whipple has ruled that the US Supreme Court order that Missouri provide the...
by admin | Jul 11, 2006 | Politics / Govt
Governor Matt Blunt has signed legislation creating tax credit programs to benefit pregnancy resource centers and to help so-called children in crisis. House Bill 1485 authorizes an income tax credit for 50 percent of contributions to qualified pregnancy resource...
