Reproductive Health Services

Gov. JB Pritzker signs bills safeguarding various reproductive rights for residents, visitors of Illinois.

Records from Missouri election authorities show that the campaigns to enshrine abortion rights in the constitution and increase the minimum wage have both turned in more than enough valid signatures.

"It’s more like gambling than it is health care," said one woman about infertility treatments, "because you’re wagering significant amounts of money... and you might come out with nothing."

The Missouri Secretary of State's language for reproductive rights ballot issues has been savaged by two courts, most recently when the Western District Court of Appeals unanimously ruled his summaries are “replete with politically partisan language."

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

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.

One doctor worried the ambiguity could leave physicians ‘looking over our shoulders wondering if a patient is in enough of a crisis to permit an exception to a law.’

The order from County Executive Sam Page extends existing programs at the health department and expands patient counseling and anti-bias and anti-racism training, as well as clinical training around contraception.

Conservative legislators don’t want to renew a tax on health care providers unless they can get amendments they say are “pro-life” added.

Planned Parenthood has regained its license to perform abortions at its St. Louis clinic.The Missouri Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday…