by admin | Apr 24, 2007 | Politics / Govt
Abstinence would be the emphasis of sex education courses in Missouri schools under a bill passing the House and moving to the Senate. HCS HB 1055 actually has three components. It would allow local school boards to offer sex education courses consistent with the...
by admin | Apr 18, 2007 | Politics / Govt
Planned Parenthood would be kicked out of the classroom under a bill moving forward in the House. Rep. Therese Sander’s (R-Moberly) bill places new regulations on abortion clinics, making them comply with the same regulations that ambulatory surgery centers do....
by admin | Nov 15, 2006 | Crime / Courts, Health / Medicine, Politics / Govt
State Supreme Court judges have heard a challenge to state law that prohibits someone from helping a teen-age girl get around requirements that minors receive parental consent for an abortion. The legislature approved the law during a special session in 2005. It made...
by admin | Mar 17, 2006 | Health / Medicine
Family planning has again become a budget matter in the House. The House Budget Committee had restored funding for family planning, including contraceptives, in the proposed $21 billion state budget. Family planning had been removed from the budget in 2003 when...
by admin | Feb 28, 2006 | Crime / Courts
A challenge to Missouri’s informed consent abortion law is rejected as the State Supreme Court rules the law, which was signed in 2003, is constitutionally sound. A challenge had been launched by Planned Parenthood, which claimed the language was vague and that...
