Abortion

The state will build a hotline in response to influx of patients traveling from places with abortion restrictions, like Missouri.

Missouri and Ohio Republicans have said that raising the constitutional threshold from a simple majority is aimed at scuttling initiatives expanding abortion rights.

States with abortion bans, like Missouri, are seeing fewer applicants for OB-GYN residencies.

The unanimous verdict was scathing in its assessment of Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who refused to sign off on the work of Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick. The court concluded that nothing in state law “gives the attorney general authority to question the auditor’s assessment of the fiscal impact of a proposed petition.”

The hearing was on an appeal of a ruling requiring the attorney general’s office to sign off on the expected cost to the state of adding abortion rights to the Missouri Constitution.

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush isn’t waiting for the courts to determine whether mifepristone should remain legal in the U.S.

Catholic doulas navigate between religious belief and their commitment to maternal reproductive health, including abortion care.

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, U.S. Rep. Cori Bush and representatives from Planned Parenthood of St. Louis and other clinics that perform abortions in Illinois gathered in the same conference room where they first learned of the Dobbs decision last year.

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade last June, clinics in the Metro East that offer abortions have become a destination for thousands of patients seeking the procedure. Abortion providers at Planned Parenthood in Fairview Heights think legislators will make more attempts to regulate reproductive health.

Although Missouri was the fastest state to ban abortion after Roe v. Wade was overturned, access hasn't shifted much because the state "was already in a post-Roe world." But elsewhere in the Midwest and southern U.S., abortion patients now have to travel a lot further.