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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.
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 ...
In some states, these numbers can be tremendously different, for example in Missouri, a state with relatively strict controls on abortion, the abortion rate by state of occurrence dropped from 4 in 1000 women aged 15–44 for 2017 to 0.1 for 2020, because 57% of abortion recipients went out of state in 2017, while 99% did so in 2020. [28]
Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and state Attorney General Andrew Bailey speak to members of the press outside of the Western District Court of Appeals in Kansas City on October 30, 2023.
Amendment 3 would enshrine reproductive health care rights, including the right to abortion and birth control, in the Missouri Constitution, reversing the state’s near-total ban on abortion ...
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 ...
The Missouri Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments in the case for 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday in Jefferson City. A decision could come later in the day on Tuesday. What will the court be deciding?