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A Jackson County judge permanently struck down a slew of abortion restrictions, including a statute requiring what's known as a "complication plan" for medication abortions.

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.

The November measure would repeal the reproductive rights amendment voters approved in 2024 and add a constitutional ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Hawley's legislative effort is at odds with the Trump administrations request to halt Missouri v. FDA.

Missouri voters enshrined the right to an abortion in 2024, but several abortion restrictions remain state law. A Jackson County judge temporarily blocked those laws, and Planned Parenthood is now seeking to permanently strike those laws to ease abortion access.

The Missouri Supreme Court suspended abortion rights protected in the state constitution and sent the issue back to a Kansas City judge. But abortion services remain available at clinics on the Kansas side of the metro.

The Missouri Supreme Court handed down a ruling that struck down injunctions put in place last year by Jackson County judge Jerri Zhang, effectively re-instating the state's near-total abortion ban.

The Missouri Supreme Court has told a Kansas City judge to again allow enforcement of the state's near ban on abortion.

Planned Parenthood has asked a judge to overturn the Missouri health department’s newly published emergency rule governing complication plans for medication abortions.

This comes months after voters approved Amendment 3 legalizing abortion.