Missouri Lawmakers Take Aim at Planned Parenthood
Republicans are pushing for new inspection requirements on Planned Parenthood clinics offering abortions and tougher restrictions on doctors who perform abortions.
The Missouri Senate is considering holding a St. Louis Planned Parenthood official in contempt for refusing to provide documents to a committee investigating the organization.
And the Missouri House approved a $27 billion state budget that includes language aimed at blocking Planned Parenthood and any other clinic that counsels women to have abortions from receiving any money through Medicaid.
Missouri already has some of the strictest abortion laws in the nation, and currently a Planned Parenthood facility in St. Louis is the only clinic in the state offering the procedure.
But now lawmakers’ targeting of Planned Parenthood is steering into largely uncharted legal waters.