reproductive health

A Jackson County Judge Thursday gave defendants more time to respond to a motion which would apply her decision to all prosecutors in the state. KBIA’s Rebecca Smith and Anna Spidel report anti-abortion protestors gathered outside Columbia’s Planned Parenthood clinic this morning before the announcement.

The Missouri Family Health Council saw a spike in emergency contraception kits following election day. To keep up, volunteers gathered in Jefferson City to help build the kits.

Healthcare providers say they’re seeing a drastic increase in the number of emergency contraceptive kit requests by Missourians since the election.

Title X grantees say they are unsure of the fund’s future financing and rule changes.

The chief medical officer for the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services discusses the illness and what to watch for.

Lynne Meyerkord has been working at the AIDS project of the Ozarks, or APO, in Springfield for 37 years and is now the Executive Director.The organization was created in the early days of the AIDS epidemic to help people suffering from HIV and AIDS. She spoke about how HIV has changed in the nearly 40 years she’s been working in the field.

The Commonwealth Fund study highlights continued gaps in women’s health coverage that Missouri lawmakers have tried and failed to address.

Planned Parenthood Great Plains’ Pittsburg health center will offer abortions, contraception and other care beginning this fall.

Planned Parenthood will hold a two-day vasectomy clinic May 16 and 17 in Columbia.

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.