Today, a judge may rule on whether Missouri’s only abortion clinic can stay open. The state has long been at the vanguard of efforts to impede access to abortion. Our recent story:
IN 2008 Missouri had five abortion clinics. Today the state, which has 6m inhabitants—more than 1m of whom are women of child-bearing age—has one. On May 31st, a judge intervened to prevent that clinic, in the city of St Louis, from losing its licence to provide abortions. Were that to happen, and it yet may, Missouri would become the only American state since 1973—when the Supreme Court declared abortion a constitutional right—to have no abortion provider.
On May 31st, the judge, Michael Stelzer of Missouri Circuit Court in St Louis, granted that. But the reprieve may only be temporary. He scheduled another hearing for June 4th. “Today is a victory for women across Missouri but this fight is far from over”, said Leana Wen, the president of Planned Parenthood, in a statement.
In 2018, Missouri lost its second-to-last abortion clinic after it was unable to meet another state requirement—securing “admitting privileges” at a nearby hospital. Many hospitals do not allow doctors who work elsewhere to admit patients, not least because it is considered unnecessary.
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