Aug. 27, 2019 • Associated Press News
A new Missouri ban on abortions at or after eight weeks of pregnancy won’t take effect Wednesday after a federal judge temporarily blocked it from being implemented.
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Aug. 27, 2019 • The Missouri Times
When Yamelsie Rodriguez takes over as the new president and CEO of the St. Louis Planned Parenthood facility, “nothing is off the table” for how she plans to expand services and “protect” Missourians’ reproductive care.
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July 30, 2019 • CBS News
Missouri's controversial eight-week abortion ban is officially being challenged in court. The complaint, filed Tuesday evening, means every one of the so-called "heartbeat" bans passed in various states is now in the hands of the courts.
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July 25, 2019 • Fourstateshomepage.com
Planned Parenthood is offering Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP, at its Joplin clinic as well as all others across Southern Missouri. PrEP is a daily medication that can cut the odds of infection and transmission of the deadly virus.
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June 27, 2019 • Associated Press News
The battle to keep open Missouri’s only abortion clinic has moved from the courts to a state administrative process, adding to the confusion about the future of the Planned Parenthood-operated clinic in St. Louis.
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June 25, 2019 • St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A judge’s ruling Monday extended Planned Parenthood’s St. Louis clinic license through Friday, allowing Missouri’s only abortion clinic time to appeal to a state commission.
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June 21, 2019 • NBC News
Missouri's lone abortion clinic can still operate after a St. Louis judge on Friday kept an injunction in effect allowing it to perform the procedure.
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June 11, 2019 • Kansas City Star
The birth of Keri Ingle’s daughter was a medical emergency.
The umbilical cord was wrapped around the baby’s neck, and Ingle started bleeding profusely.
The hospital team intervened, and everything turned out all right. But the close call gave Ingle — who went on to become a Missouri state representative — a new understanding of the individual horror stories that together make up the state’s persistently high rate of deaths due to pregnancy and childbirth.
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June 8, 2019 • The Washington Post
Under any circumstances, a pelvic exam is uncomfortable.
The invasive practice requires a doctor to insert a speculum into a patient’s vagina to examine her cervix and to insert fingers into that patient’s vagina while pressing her abdomen to feel her reproductive organs. Even when it’s medically necessary, it is unpleasant. But when it’s not — when it’s instead performed only because of a state mandate — doctors say the examination can be traumatizing.
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