Missouri Family Health Council

The health care nonprofit also will shutter a location in southwest Missouri. Officials at the organization say the changes better reflect what current patients want.

The City of St. Louis Department of Health is now offering free emergency contraception kits, the latest organization to join the Missouri Family Health Council’s “Free E-C” initiative.

Many Missourians are not aware that some kinds of birth control are legal in the state. That’s according to findings from a Right Time survey. The survey found that more than 50% of Missourians do not believe or know that emergency contraception is legal.

Missouri is poised to strip additional providers from a state-run program that provides family planning services for uninsured women.The budget lawmakers…