Planned Parenthood is asking a federal judge to prevent restrictions from taking place on Oct. 1.
“The Columbia health center has abortion procedures scheduled on October 3, 2018, so needs relief by that date in order to avoid cancelling patient appointments,” the organization wrote in court documents.
State law requires clinics that provide abortions to be ambulatory surgical centers, which are places that perform surgeries and procedures outside of a hospital. Doctors who perform them must have admitting privileges at a local hospital. The St. Louis Planned Parenthood meets these requirements, but Columbia’s does not. MU Health Care removed the Columbia center’s privileges in 2015, according to previous Missourian reporting.
On Sept. 10, a three-judge panel for the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals vacated a preliminary injunction that allowed Planned Parenthood to perform abortions while the organization went through the legal process to fight the regulations. The preliminary injunction was granted April 2017.
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