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According to the Guttmacher Institute, in 2017, there were 4,710 abortions in Missouri. There was an eight percent decline in the abortion rate in Missouri between 2014 and 2017, from 4.4 to 4.0 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age. Missouri was the first state to enforce its abortion ban after Dobbs v.
It was most strongly opposed in the Ozarks in southern Missouri. Missouri was the first state to enforce its ban after Dobbs was decided. Abortion access was restored in Missouri in February 2025. [5] Specifically, clinics started providing abortions again on February 15, 2025. [6]
Missouri almost immediately enacted a near-total ban on abortions in 2022 after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Abortions were only allowed in the state for medical emergencies.
Abortion in Missouri is legal up to the point of fetal viability as a result of 2024 Missouri Amendment 3 taking effect on December 6, 2024, 30 days after the November 5, 2024, general election. Clinics are open, and legal challenges to allow access are ongoing.
Missouri has effectively banned abortion at all stages of pregnancy, “except in cases of medical emergency,” since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Wade in 2022.
When the Missouri House in 2019 debated the bill that became the state’s abortion ban, then-state Rep. Bryan Spencer quickly raised —and praised—the proposal’s lack of exceptions for ...
The fallout from Dobbs v.Jackson Women's Health Organization and the resulting restrictive abortion policies are causing increasing barriers to abortion access in the United States, which is statistically negatively affecting, among other things, the health and well-being of birthing people and young children, with ripple effects to other populations.
“When folks really are in crisis, they need true information,” said state Rep. Maggie Nurrenbern, a Kansas City Democrat. “That’s what is so frustrating. That the state is actively pushing ...