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Representatives from Illinois, Kansas and Missouri are part of the caucus behind a package of bills that would promote healthy outcomes for Black mothers, who die from pregnancy-related causes at far higher rates than women of other races.
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IUDs have been used for decades, but many patients describe waves of pain when a nurse or doctor inserts them. Providers are now are now considering offering women the option of sedation to make the insertion less unpleasant.
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Leaders from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration visited St. Louis University on Wednesday to discuss what federal officials could do to reduce the state’s high rate of maternal and infant deaths. Community health workers, patients and government officials took part in a roundtable at St. Louis University with agency officials from Washington, D.C.
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Abortion rights advocates said cutting funding to Planned Parenthood would be a 'devastating blow' to the state's public health safety net
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Michelle Trupiano, the Executive Director of the Missouri Family Health Council, sat down with KBIA’s Rebecca Smith and spoke about The Right Time, a program that provides education and access to low or no cost birth control to Missourians across the state.
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Maternal mortality is getting worse in the state of Missouri according to a new report released Thursday.
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Paula Nickelson, the new director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said lowering the maternal mortality rate and increasing overall patient care in rural areas is among her priorities.
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It’s been just more than a year since Missouri’s trigger law banned nearly all abortions in the state, and according to a new survey from The Right Time —many Missourians remain confused about the legality of emergency contraception and birth control.
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LaKisha Redditt is a Black doula and the founder of Virtuously B’Earthed Doula Services in St. Louis. She spoke about how much more education black birthing people have to do to keep themselves and their babies safe – and about how a doula can help in that process.
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The medical abortion services at the Columbia Planned Parenthood clinic have been available since August – for the first time since 2012 – but following…