Missouri abortion clinic to stay open – for now – after judge's orderA judge has issued an order allowing Missouri’s only abortion clinic to continue to provide the service, just hours before the St Louis Planned Parenthood clinic’s license to perform abortions was set to expire. Planned Parenthood supporters gathered outside the clinic breathed a sigh of relief after the ruling from circuit judge Michael Stelzer. He issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting Missouri from allowing the license to lapse. If the license had lapsed, Missouri would have become the first state without an abortion clinic since the landmark US supreme court’s 1973 decision legalizing abortion nationwide, known as Roe v Wade. A ruling against Planned Parenthood would have “taken us back to the 1970s”, Kuc said.

Source: The Guardian May 31, 2019 12:13 UTC