Abortion

In 2024, voters in Missouri approved a different Amendment 3, which ended the state’s near-total abortion ban. Two years later, voters reiterated their support by rejecting Amendment 3 and keeping abortion access legal.

Amendment 3 would institute a near-total ban on abortion and also bar gender-affirming care for minors.

The statewide television and radio spot was developed with help from an anti-abortion medical group and will air through Sept. 30

Planned Parenthood Great Rivers in Springfield joined three other clinics in the state in offering procedural abortions.

Bloomberg also donated $1 million in 2024 to Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, the campaign that successfully placed an abortion rights amendment on the ballot and helped win its passage.

Missouri follows a national trend of growing access to abortion pills through out-of-state telehealth providers. But even as the number of medication abortions obtained through telehealth increased, the number of Missourians traveling out of state neared 12,000.

A Planned Parenthood clinic began providing medication abortion Monday while also expanding pain management for IUD placements and biopsies

Among the legislation the governor signed is a wide-reaching public health bill that expands access to birth control and requires the state to track cases of Lyme disease and alpha-gal syndrome.

A Kansas City judge last week overturned a requirement that patients take the medication while a doctor is present.

Medication abortion will be available in Missouri for the first time since 2018 after a judge determined most of the state’s challenged abortion regulations are unconstitutional, including laws requiring hospital privileges, complication plans and special clinic licenses.