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Abortion in Missouri was legalized after the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. Peaking at 29 abortion clinics in 1982, the number began to decline, going from twelve in 1992 to one in 2014, down to zero for a time in 2016, but back to one from 2017 to May 2019 when the last remaining clinic announced it would likely lose its license.
This color-coded map illustrates the current legal status of elective-specific abortion procedures in each of the individual states, U.S. territories, and federal district. [a] A colored border indicates a more stringent restriction or ban that is blocked by legal injunction.
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The state had only three abortion clinics in 2017 after years of targeted restrictions on abortion providers. The last clinic in the state closed shortly after Roe v.
A Missouri judge on Friday temporarily struck down several laws that Planned Parenthood clinics have said made access to abortion all but impossible across the state. Among the laws Jackson County ...
Wade in 2022, state laws and regulations had effectively thwarted Missouri’s sole abortion provider, a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis, from using mifepristone and misoprostol, the two ...
Missouri currently has one of the strictest abortion bans in the U.S. in place, with exceptions to protect the life of the mother and for medical emergencies. If the amendment were to pass, it ...
Missouri banned almost all abortions after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, which ended a national right to abortion and tossed legal questions around the procedure back to ...