Anna Spoerre
Anna Spoerre covers reproductive health care for the Missouri Independent.
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Missouri Democrats filibustered for more than 11 hours before sending the bill back to the House for a final vote.
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A GOP-backed bill would block Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood. Health care providers fear it will harm patients’ access to critical care.
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Jamie Corley, a Republican from University City, officially filed to run in the GOP primary on Monday. This is her first time running for public office.
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Doulas and birth centers are considered part of the solution to Missouri’s ‘unacceptable’ maternal mortality crisis. But current law makes it difficult to help mothers most in need.
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In the majority of Missouri’s rising cases of congenital syphilis, mothers had little to no prenatal care, highlighting a larger issue of maternal health care access. Legislation introduced in the House and Senate aims to address the crisis.
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Constitutional law experts and anti-abortion advocates agree the amendment could upend decades of laws aimed at limiting access, but not without years of legal challenges.
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Missouri’s highest court for the second time in four years rebuked lawmakers’s efforts to ban abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving Medicaid reimbursements.
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As amendments aimed at legalizing abortion in cases of rape or incest were voted down, one Republican state senator defended the decision saying, ‘God does not make mistakes.’
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Abortion rights advocates said cutting funding to Planned Parenthood would be a ‘devastating blow’ to Missouri's public health safety net.
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The campaign has the support of the major abortion advocacy groups in Missouri, but it’s also drawn criticism from activists over its fetal viability standard.
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"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."
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The group behind a proposed ballot initiative that would add rape exceptions to Missouri’s abortion ban says a reporting requirement would give victims access to help. But some survivor advocacy groups worry it could cause further harm.