By Anna Spoerre
Abortion access in Missouri continues to expand under the constitutional amendment voters approved in 2024 — less than three months before they’ll be asked to undo it.
The latest expansion is in Springfield, where Planned Parenthood began offering in-clinic procedural abortions Thursday. Just a few weeks earlier the clinic began prescribing abortion medication, returning abortion access to the Missouri Ozarks for the first time in 21 years.
Krissy Durant, a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, which operates the clinic, said appointments are already fully booked for this week. For now, the clinic will offer both medication and procedural abortion appointments every couple of weeks, she said, but that is subject to change as clinic staff work out a longer-term schedule.
Prior to July, Missourians in the area had to drive hours to reach a Planned Parenthood clinic where they could end a pregnancy. Reproductive rights advocates point to limited paid time off, childcare access and lack of transportation as barriers to accessing abortion outside a person’s hometown.
“After decades without abortion care nearby, we have seen patients right here in Springfield, and they are relieved to find the care they need within reach of where they live,” Dr. Margaret Baum, chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, said in a statement. “We know abortion care is on the line in Missouri, and that’s exactly why we are expanding. We won’t back down. We are standing proudly in solidarity with our patients who want, who need, and who voted for access to abortion care.”
The Springfield clinic is the fourth Planned Parenthood in the state to offer in-clinic procedures after Missourians passed a constitutional amendment in 2024 protecting abortion up to the point of fetal viability. Planned Parenthood clinics in Kansas City, Columbia and St. Louis restarted procedural abortions in 2025.
Missourians getting abortion pills by mail from out-of-state providers quadrupled since 2023
All four clinics, along with the Planned Parenthood in Gladstone, offer medication abortion following a June court ruling that struck down dozens of abortion regulations challenged under the 2024 amendment.
The judge in that case upheld only a few of the challenged abortion regulations, including a requirement that patients meet with a doctor in-person before being prescribed medication abortion and a requirement that only physicians can perform abortions. Durant said these laws affect Planned Parenthood’s ability to offer more appointments at this time.
Medication abortion is the most common method for ending a pregnancy in the U.S. It typically involves taking mifepristone — which in Missouri must be administered at a clinic — followed later by misoprostol. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the regimen for use through 10 weeks of pregnancy.
Procedural abortions, which can be performed later in pregnancy, take place in-clinic using various methods and are completed much faster than medication abortion.
This November, Missouri voters will decide whether they want to reinstate an abortion ban. The proposed constitutional amendment, which will appear on the ballot as Amendment 3, would ban the procedure with limited exceptions for survivors of rape and incest and for medical emergencies. It would also write a ban on gender-affirming care for minors, already prohibited under state law, into the state constitution.
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21 comments:
Catholic Charities has a house for pregnant women who need help. T women can choose life and get support services there. No need for abortion/murdering children.
Dems “LetThe Killing Begin” with a smile on their evil faces
This is what all the Leftist Liberal Dems, with their Woke, DEI, CRT, Pronoun Shaming Attitudes - Love! The Dems - "Birth Control System", so they can live without Guilt! And before any of you LIBS start commenting - Let's again deal with all the Facts and Truths of Abortion - Less than 4.5% of ALL ABORTIONS ARE FOR - RAPE AND INCEST / LIFE THREATING / PHYSICAL HEALTH / FETAL ABNORMALITY -
SO, WHAT IS THE REASON FOR THE REST OF THE 95.5% of ABORTIONS HAPPENING - BECAUSE THEY USE IT AS PERSONAL BIRTH CONTROL - THEY LACK VALUES, MORALS, AND CHARACTER! THAT IS THE TRUTH - NOT THE LIES OF THOSE WHO PUSH ABORTIONS - SINCE 44% OF THOSE THAT GET ABORTIONS HAVE ALL READY HAD AT LEAST ONE OR MORE ABORTION BEFORE - OMG!!!
Rape and Incest: Combined estimates range near 1% of total abortions, with rape accounting for roughly 0.4% to 1% and incest making up less than 0.5%.
Life Threat / Major Bodily Function: Direct risk to the woman's life or impairment of a major bodily function account for about 0.3%.
Physical Health Concerns: Broader physical health risks or maternal complications account for roughly 2.2%.
Fetal Abnormality: Severe genetic or structural abnormalities in the fetus account for about 1.2%
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 44% of people who get an abortion have already had at least one before. Specifically, national data shows roughly 25% are having their second abortion, and 19% are having their third or more.
Republicans would rather proudly pump their fists in the air as their elected politicians cut vital services for these children than admit out loud that they are actually only pro-birth instead of pro-life.
Pro-Life and anti EBT/Thug card
The other comments here, pro-life and pro-"choice" are rhetorical trash. (except you, 1:32, I see you. Good job. Just... ease up on the caps lock key... it makes you read as unhinged.)
I'm going to present instead an interesting statistic and a thought I have about it.
The average number of abortions performed by a graduating OB-GYN resident is in the 40's.
"[...] mean number of abortions per graduating resident declined from 46.1 to 43.9 [...]"
(source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42097483/)
There is no statistic supplied for "minimum" in the abstract. But you must assume that every OB-GYN you know has ended at least one life in the womb. Many of them are unrepentant. This thought distresses me greatly--members of my own family are in that profession, and I worry about them as often as I think about them.
I have also heard, though I have struggled to substantiate the claim, that it is practically impossible to become an OB-GYN without having performed at least one abortion in the course of your training. The medical profession is captured, institutionally, by people who are complicit in this and force it as a rite of initiation.
The cognitive dissonance that has to come with admitting that what you did amounted to killing a child is too much for anyone of sound mind to bear. It is rare, in my experience, to find an OB who is opposed to abortion, because the vast majority already have performed one. No one likes to admit that they were wrong.
It gets even hairier to reason about when you consider cases where the life of the mother is actually (and not just rhetorically) at risk. I fear medical science has given us more power than we can morally handle. But by permitting the commission of abortion in our country in cases outside of that contingency, we all have blood on our hands, and I think even that contingency is not something we are prepared to come to a correct conclusion on.
Dems, would rather make excuses for Women's Rights under the ability to have Abortions, because they lack Values, Morals, and Character and try to hide the Truth - It is not typically because Rape, Incest, Physical Health Concerns, or Fetal Abnormality - but they use it as BIRTH CONTROL - that is why over 44% of these Women who have Abortions a 2nd, a 3rd, a 4th, or more Abortions.
So, ALL YOU DEMS AND LEFTIST LIBERALS, STOP - TELLING EVERYONE THE SAME OLD LIES ABOUT WOMEN'S RIGHTS - THEY ARE NOT HAVING ABORTIONS BECAUSE OF INCEST, RAPE, HEALTH ISSUES, OR FETAL ISSUES, IT IS BECAUSE THEY LACK - VALUES, MORALS, AND CHARACTER - AND ARE USING ABORTIONS AS THEIR PERSONAL BIRTH CONTROL! START SPEAKING THE TRUTH - THE FACTS DON'T LIE - LIKE THE DEMS!!!!!!!
4:48PM, I would say that most Republicans are both Pro-Birth and Pro-Life. What I believe you are seeing is the fact that a good majority of our Welfare, Medicaid, Food and Housing Programs are Full of Fraud and all the while the Democrats, are consistently pushing these Programs with little or no accountability - while the Republicans are trying to bring about accountability and sensibility to them! These Programs are Funded by Hardworking Taxpayers, that deserve to have accountability within these programs - not just monthly Taxpayers Dollars sent to people that may not be eligible and will not ever help themselves out - because they feel they are owed it.
We have Families that have been using these Government Programs for Generations - Never trying to get off of them. Free Housing, Free Medical, Free Education, Free Food - Yet when we try to bring Accountability to these Programs - we become Racist, Nazis, trying to bring Plight on to people. Take for instance how the Majority of States are Stopping the SNAP Programs from buying Sugar-Products Pop, Candy, Desserts, Etc., all the while the majority of SNAP Recipients are Overweight, leading to Diabetes - which again requires Higher Medical Costs - these Recipients were screaming and yelling, because we were trying to help them so that the Benefits they got were going for more Healthy Food - and Less Sugars - again if they wanted to live on all those Sugar-Products - all they would have to do is go out and GET A JOB - DO YOU THINK THEY DID THAT OF COURSE NOT -
The other situation - all of these Welfare Programs need to have education, jobs, training, and work programs tide to them - Why should we give Taxpayers money away without the recipients being part of their own solution - these people just cannot sit at home and collect Money, Housing, Food, and Medical Treatments - without lifting a finger - Our Country was built on Hard work, we should expect that from all our Citizens - If you are Lazy, Feel Entitled, or Think that everyone should support you in the concept of "Share-the-Wealth", by people that get up every day and go to work - then you need to find a Socialist Society and Country to move to. In America we are Capitalistic Society - You work for what you get - - and don't tell me I am a Racist or Nazis - I have owned and rented Section-8 Properties and these People - could have worked and yet had everything paid for them - they basically lived better than me - because of the Taxpayers of America - Supported their Lifestyles - Again, If you are given Tax Dollars from the Government - You need to have time limits to get off of them training to get a job and live off the Government for Generations!
All these “Christians” failing to realize that Christ is more likely to be in the clinic providing comfort than outside protesting with an angry faces. You’ll probably be the ones finding yourself lumped in with the goats as opposed to the sheep at the end of days.
Article Executive Summary: vote for Amendment 3 on Nov. 3rd here in Missouri. Common sense legislation on the subject of abortion, and will save lives, both for pregnant women and unborn babies.
have also heard, though I have struggled to substantiate the claim
SO YET ANOTHER CASE OF LYIN FOR JESUS!
7:30AM, Christ is all around us as well as Temptations and the Devil. Our failure to recognize and see those things and react to good and evil is why we are given Free-Will, the Will to make decisions Good and Bad. If you look at Children as our Greatest Gift - Why would anyone want to Harm or Kill them! Yet over 44% of these Women who have Abortions have a 2nd, a 3rd, a 4th, or more Abortions. They use Abortions as Birth Control and for Not Interrupting their Lives - Because they Lack Values, Morals, and Character - Not for Incest / Rape / There Physical Health or Fetal Health Issues, which accounts for a Total of Less than 4.5% of all Abortions - THAT IS TRUTH AND FACTS - NOT WHAT THE PRO-CHOICE / WOMAN'S RIGHTS GROUPS - TRY TO PUSH ON SOCIETY!
Most Common Reasons - Why Women have Abortions -
Studies show that women typically report a combination of reasons rather than just one. The leading factors include:
Financial hardship: Not being able to afford the cost of a child or lacking financial stability (40%).
Life timing: Feeling that it is not the right time in life, often due to age or future plans (36%).
Relationship issues: Experiencing problems with a partner or not wanting to be a single parent (31%).
Responsibility to other dependents: Needing to care for existing children or family members (29%).
Interference with plans: Worrying that a baby will disrupt education, career goals, or the ability to work (20%).
Other Contributing Factors
Additional circumstances can also influence the decision to terminate a pregnancy:
Emotional readiness: Feeling unready or too immature to handle the mental and emotional demands of parenting.
Health and safety: Serious medical risks to the pregnant woman or severe fetal health abnormalities.
Extenuating circumstances: Pregnancies resulting from sexual assault or incest, which account for a small percentage of overall cases. - Which is less than 4.5% of all Abortions!!!
The PPPP appears to be having a meltdown today...
5:53PM, You and the rest of the LWNJ (Left Wing Nut Jobs), who cannot add anything to a conversation, because you lack any facts and truths can only open your basement door, make a snide and illiterate statement and go back downstairs and wait for your government check to arrive, living off the rest of the hardworking taxpayers of our country.
Man this brings a smile to my blue haired trans liberal Antifa Super Soldier self. As a member of the church of Satan this is part of our religious expression. Get used to it. It’s going to be hilarious when once again the state votes to keep abortion legal. It just will elect idiots that try to steal their rights. Leave people alone and get a life. You do not care about these kids and surplus populations once they’re born. You cut every single service possible to the bone to help people get out of the poverty cycle. Shut up and reap.
It seems that Democrats like 5:53pm have a problem when presented with facts and then they have the meltdowns. Their anthem for abortion is it's the woman's right, but what about the child's rights, it is not the child's fault that this woman doesn't have her life together or that she uses tax-payers' dollars for her personal birth control. That is why the Democrats try to cloud and argue the Abortion issue about rape, incest, the physical health of the mother or child for Abortions when this averages less than 4.5% of the total Abortions performed, so then what about the rest - the 95.5% of other Abortions that are performed because these Women want the Freedom to kill a child - because it could inhibit their lifestyle, and that's why 44% have a second, third, fourth and even fifth abortion - because they lack simple values, morals, and character in their personal lives and that's why Democrats argue their reason for Abortion, is for rape, incest, the physical health of the mother or child, but that is a LIE it is to cover up their personal lifestyles of these women!
Lets play spot the verbal diarrhea.
It's easy unless tyou are a RWNJ!
I look around these comments and see nothing but a bunch of Pharisees. Jesus had a lot to say about Pharisees, and none of it was complimentary.
3:03pm, No let's spot the mentally insane. LWNJ's who cannot figure out that there are only 2-sexes all the while pushing woke, dei, crt, pronoun shamers on our children and trying to indoctrinate them into their cult thinking. Trying to force girls to share their restrooms and locker rooms with trans-boys and then making them compete against them or forcing grade school children to go to drag queen shows right here in Missouri. Then telling everyone that Abortion is your right and don't worry about the consequences, and that child your Aborting, though doesn't have any rights - what dumbazz mentally unsound thinking. So go out and live however you want and the Abortion clinics are always there to solve your lifestyle and lack of values, morals, and character, because they support your birth control choices!
4:47pm, Jesus also said a lot about mercy and about sin and stood up against sin and then died for our sins - Yet the Bible teaches us a lot about mercy and about sin and the blessings and rewards about how precious life is. Yet, most Liberals want to argue that they deserve their rights on Abortions all the while by taking others' rights away - unborn aborted children - so they can continue to live a care-free and careless lifestyles - not because of rape, not because of incest, and not because of the physical health of the mother or child - which is only accounts for less than 4.5% of the total number of Abortions performed which is the real reason they do it so they do not want to deal with lifestyle inconveniences - The real facts and the truths are a sad statement on the mental capacities of these women - because they have been taught that they should not or deserve not to be inconvenienced in any form and that having children could cause a feminist inequality - and abortion gives them what they think is gender equality - and the rights to do whatever it takes to live with that type of selfish attitude, because it would infringe on their lifestyle and inconvenience them!
Psalm 127:3-5a children are a blessing and a reward.
Genesis 9:6: “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.”
Exodus 20:13: “You shall not murder.”
Exodus 23:7b: “Do not kill the innocent and righteous.”
This is great news! I'm gonna go try to get knocked up now just so I can have an abortion.
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