Anna Spoerre | Missouri Independent

‘This legislation is the first of a salvo of legislation that will better define Amendment 3 and provide protections for women and the infant,’ said state Rep. Brian Seitz.

‘This program is going to give women the building blocks to live a better life, and then that is going to overflow into their children, and then their children’s children,’ said one caregiver in the prison nursery.

A Jackson County judge previously allowed certain regulations, such as mandatory pelvic exams for medical abortion, to remain in place.

Despite voicing opposition to abortion, most members of the Rolla City Council worried the ordinance would do little besides inspire costly litigation.

A new study out of Saint Louis University looks at the effects of COVID policies on breastfeeding and the future of maternal work policies and health equity.

Andrew Bailey’s letter to the governor-elect didn’t discuss TRAP laws that made the procedure virtually impossible to obtain even before Missouri’s ban.

Rep. Justin Sparks said he plans to challenge Jon Patterson for speaker of the House, based in part on Patterson’s comments around abortion.

The presumptive House speaker’s comments broke from a growing narrative among Missouri GOP leaders of a unified effort to overturn the amendment.

Three attorneys general argue federal laws around mifepristone make it difficult for states to enforce abortion bans.