Anna Spoerre
Reproductive Healthcare Reporter | The Missouri IndependentAnna Spoerre covers reproductive health care for The Missouri Independent. A graduate of Southern Illinois University, she most recently worked at the Kansas City Star where she focused on storytelling that put people at the center of wider issues. Before that, she was a courts reporter for the Des Moines Register in Iowa.
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Clay County Circuit Judge Karen Krauser ordered Attorney General Andrew Bailey to answer questions under oath over an apparent legal ethics breach. -
Some Missouri day care centers have been forced to shutter as state subsidy payments remain backlogged due to glitches in a new system. -
Missouri — which has some of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country — was the first state to ban almost all abortions 2 years ago, leaving thousands of residents seeking other ways to access the procedure. -
The video at the center of the lawsuit, captured in December, was posted on social media by Project Veritas, a self-proclaimed right wing news organization that often conducts undercover stings. -
Despite outcries from families following the temporary shuttering of IVF in Alabama earlier this year, Missouri lawmakers failed to pass legislation guaranteeing the procedure. -
The undercover video from Project Veritas allegedly shows Planned Parenthood staff telling a man pretending to have a 13-year-old pregnant niece how they could help her obtain an abortion out of state.
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All 14 states with abortion bans saw a decrease in OB-GYN residency applications last year, a recent study found. -
Missouri Democrats and health groups warn that the ban, effective August 28, will hit low-income residents hardest, as they depend on clinics for health services and screenings. -
A bill that would improve health care access for Missouri women almost died in the House after some lawmakers conflated birth control legislation with abortion medication. -
Missouri could be the first test of a more aggressive strategy to keep abortion off the ballot and out of the state constitution. -
Missouri Democrats filibustered for more than 11 hours before sending the bill back to the House for a final vote. -
A GOP-backed bill would block Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood. Health care providers fear it will harm patients’ access to critical care.
