Missouri Could Soon Become the First State to Totally Eliminate Legal Abortion

Tré Goins-Phillips : May 29, 2019
Faithwire.com

All this comes after Missouri's governor, Mike Parson, signed a pro-life bill into law, banning abortion after eight weeks into pregnancy.

(St. Louis, MO) — [Faithwire.com] The state of Missouri could soon become the first in the country to totally outlaw legal abortion—a possibility the president of Planned Parenthood, Dr. Leana Wen, described as "a real public health crisis." (Image: via CBS News)

According to a report from CBS News, an abortion clinic in St. Louis—the last one in Missouri—expects to be shut down by the end of the week. The state's health department is "refusing to renew" the Planned Parenthood facility's annual license to provide abortion to Missourians.

If the license is not granted, the Show Me State would become the first state in the country without a functioning legal abortion clinic since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling on Roe v. Wade in 1973.

Planned Parenthood would, of course, still have every legal right to continue offering its other health services for the women of Missouri.

Immediately after news broke Tuesday of the potential end to abortion in the Midwestern state, Wen, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and others weighed in on what Planned Parenthood described as an "outrageous" possibility... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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