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U.S. NEWS Monday 3 June 2019
Q&A: Possible closure of Missouri’s

lone abortion clinic

By JIM SALTER but the license is threat-
Associated Press ened unless the non-staff
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri physicians agree to be
has at least temporarily interviewed. Boyer said
avoided becoming the first Planned Parenthood can’t
state without a functioning force people who aren’t
abortion clinic since 1974, on staff to cooperate.
the year after the Roe v. Assistant Attorney General
Wade Supreme Court de- John Sauer told the judge
cision. that any doctor who has
A St. Louis judge on Friday performed an abortion
intervened on behalf of a should be made available
Planned Parenthood clinic for the investigation.
there that is at odds with ___
state regulators who are re- WHAT DOES THE JUDGE’S
fusing to renew the facility’s FRIDAY RULING MEAN? In this May 17, 2019 file photo, Teresa Pettis, right, greets a
license to perform abor- The clinic can continue to passerby outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis.
tions. The license was set to perform abortions for now. Associated Press
expire effective Saturday. The judge issued a tempo- department. Information available, did so in another
The Missouri Department rary restraining order that provided by the state of state. But the percentage is
of Health and Senior Ser- prohibits the state from Missouri shows that at least almost certainly higher be-
vice cited patient safety taking away the clinic’s li- 48 percent of Missourians cause some states, includ-
concerns and said it want- cense to perform abortions. who received abortions in ing Illinois, don’t provide
ed to talk to several clinic The license will remain in ef- 2017, the most recent data the data.q
doctors. Planned Parent- fect at least until the judge
hood said two staff doctors issues a ruling on Planned
agreed to interviews, but Parenthood’s request for
that others who are con- a permanent injunction. A
tractors or no longer work hearing is set for Tuesday
at the clinic would not talk. morning.
A look at some of the key ___
questions surrounding the WHERE ELSE DO MISSOURI
potential closure of Mis- WOMEN GET ABORTIONS?
souri’s only abortion clinic: Some Missouri residents al-
___ ready must travel hundreds
HOW DID IT GET TO THIS of miles to get an abortion.
POINT? Closure of the St. Louis clin-
Missouri law requires an an- ic would mean they might
nual inspection of abortion have to go farther, but not
clinics. The inspection in St. much: The Hope Clinic for
Louis was in March. Women performs abortions
The health department in Granite City, Illinois, 10
cited several deficiencies, miles (16 kilometers) from
including “at least one inci- St. Louis.
dent in which patient safe- For people in the western
ty was gravely compro- half of the state, the closest
mised.” It also cited what option is Planned Parent-
it called “failed surgical hood’s Abortion Services
abortions in which women clinic in Overland Park,
remained pregnant,” and Kansas, a suburb of Kansas
an alleged failure to obtain City, Missouri, just 2 miles (3
“informed consent.” kilometers) from the state
At a hearing before Judge line.
Michael Stelzer on Thurs- About 3,300 of the 7,000
day, Planned Parenthood abortions performed in
attorney Jamie Boyer said Kansas last year were
the seven deficiencies for Missouri residents, ac-
have been “remedied,” cording to Kansas’ health
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