JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Latest on abortion services at a Columbia, Missouri Planned Parenthood clinic (all times local):
Missouri is down to one clinic that can perform abortions after the license of another facility expired.
The Columbia Planned Parenthood clinic’s abortion license expired Tuesday.
The site also has not been able to meet a new state requirement that doctors must have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals before they perform abortions. Federal appeals judges ruled last month that Missouri could enforce that rule as of Monday.
A Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis is the last in the state that can provide abortions.
Planned Parenthood Great Plains spokeswoman Emily Miller says the organization hopes the state will issue the Columbia facility another license soon. Planned Parenthood attorneys have asked a federal judge to temporarily exempt the Columbia clinic from the hospital privileges requirement.
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Missouri is down to one abortion clinic amid a legal battle over state abortion laws.
Planned Parenthood Great Plains spokeswoman Emily Miller says abortions scheduled for Wednesday at the Columbia clinic are cancelled. She says the organization’s St. Louis clinic is now the only one in the state that can provide abortions.
Federal appeals judges ruled last month that Missouri can enforce a requirement that doctors must have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals before they perform abortions. The Planned Parenthood Columbia clinic was unable to meet that requirement.
Planned Parenthood has asked U.S. Western District Court Judge Brian Wimes to temporarily exempt the Columbia clinic from the requirement, but Wimes has yet to rule.
Wimes could still grant Planned Parenthood’s request, which would allow abortions to resume at the clinic.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Abortions at a Missouri Planned Parenthood clinic face cancellation this week.
Abortions were scheduled for Wednesday at the Planned Parenthood in Columbia.
But federal appeals court judges on Monday issued a mandate that allows Missouri to once again enforce a law that requires doctors to get admitting privileges at nearby hospitals in order to perform abortions. The Columbia doctor doesn’t have those privileges.
Planned Parenthood attorneys are asking a federal district judge to pause enforcement of the law for the Columbia site as a broader legal fight over abortion laws plays out.
Abortions will be cancelled unless the judge acts soon. If the law is not temporarily stayed, St. Louis will be the only Planned Parenthood site that provides abortions in Missouri.