Judge Blocks Missouri’s Anti-Abortion Law
A judge in St. Louis, Missouri ruled to temporarily block the state from preventing the state’s only Planned Parenthood from performing abortions on Friday.
“We could face a situation tomorrow where 1.1 million women of reproductive age in Missouri will no longer be able to access abortion care, which is essential health care, in their own state,” Dr. Leana Wen, president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America said to MSNBC, Axios reported.
This comes after Planned Parenthood announced Tuesday that the last remaining abortion clinic in Missouri would possibly be shutdown. Since, there have been massive protests throughout the state, NBC reported.
Since Planned Parenthood won the temporary restraining order, it will avoid being the first state without one abortion clinic. According to NBC, the one abortion clinic was going to close at midnight on Friday, but the block has made it so that a decision will be made in court Tuesday.
The bill makes exceptions in cases of “rape, incest, and situations when the mother’s health is at risk,” reported CBS News, but only when the woman files a police report first.
This comes after Republican Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant and Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation, which will make it so women will no longer be able to have an abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy when the law takes effect July 1. Pro-choice group Center for Reproductive Rights called it “blatantly unconstitutional” and threatened to sue the state.
Several other state legislatures, like those in Kentucky and Tennessee, have considered similar bills.
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