Only surgical abortions will be offered initially as the clinics await state approval to restart medication abortions.

Officials at Planned Parenthood Great Rivers are awaiting approval of what’s known as a complication plan before offering medication abortions again.

The Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia will begin offering abortions the first week of March. It marks the first time in nine years mid-Missourians will have access to the procedure without having to drive to St. Louis, Kansas City or outside the state.

The circuit court judge wrote that the regulations were unnecessary and the licensing requirement for abortion clinics was discriminatory.

I’m not saying that GOP lawmakers have an elaborate plan to ban abortion in Kansas. But if they did, they’d be doing what they’re doing now.

Two of Missouri’s nine Planned Parenthood clinics are poised to start performing regularly-scheduled surgical abortions next week, though clinic leadership says access to medication abortions is in th