by admin | Nov 20, 2002 | Crime / Courts
The State Appeals Court in St. Louis says Missouri’s ban on partial birth abortions is absolute – that the procedure is not legal even to save the life or health of the mother. Planned Parenthood is challenging the law, calling it a back-door effort to ban...
by admin | Oct 15, 2002 | Crime / Courts
A state public health official defends the decision to resume state family planning payments to Planned Parenthood, despite a pending lawsuit. Deputy Health Director Tricia Schlechte says the decision actually became pretty simple once the court injunction against...
by admin | Oct 8, 2002 | Politics / Govt
Planned Parenthood has begun receiving state aid again even though another lawsuit objecting to the state contracts with the agency has been filed. The State Supreme Court ruling led to the dismissal of a lawsuit that sought to end payments to Planned Parenthood,...
by admin | Aug 27, 2002 | Politics / Govt
A lawsuit that has kept state family planning money out of the hands of Planned Parenthood has been dismissed, but the issue is far from resolved. Cole County Circuit Judge Byron Kinder complied with a State Supreme Court order to dismiss the lawsuit after the court...
by admin | Jul 31, 2002 | Crime / Courts
Missouri Planned Parenthood officials are siding with fellow Planned Parenthood members in Iowa who are refusing to turn over some information to law enforcement authorities. A county sheriff is investigating the death ofa newborn found at a recycling center and had...
