Administrative Hearing Commissioner Sreenivasa Rao Dandamudi said, “Planned Parenthood has demonstrated that it provides safe and legal abortion care. Therefore, Planned Parenthood is entitled to renewal of its abortion facility license.”Friday’s decision means that Missouri will not become the first state without an abortion clinic since 1974. “We do not find Planned Parenthood failed to ensure safe and appropriate care in ensuring the accuracy of its gross tissue exams,” Dandamudi wrote. “With respect to this issue, we find no cause to deny Planned Parenthood’s renewal application.”27 GOP SENATORS ASK AG BARR TO INVESTIGATE PLANNED PARENTHOOD GETTING PPP FUNDSPPSLR’s president and CEO for the St. Louis region, Yamelsie Rodríguez, said Planned Parenthood was vindicated by the ruling. “For more than a year, Missouri’s health department has targeted Planned Parenthood,” said Rodríguez in a statement Friday.

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