JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Republican-led Missouri legislative panel says the Senate should launch contempt proceedings against the leader of a St. Louis-region Planned Parenthood. The report comes after Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri didn’t comply with a subpoena sent to President and CEO Mary Kogut. The Senate Interim…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Republican-led Missouri legislative panel says the Senate should launch contempt proceedings against a St. Louis-region Planned Parenthood. The report from the Senate Interim Committee on the Sanctity of Life comes after the Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri refused to comply with a subpoena. The…
(KTRS/AP) – Despite a legal victory, the Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia, Missouri cannot resume abortions. On Monday a judge blocked Missouri from revoking the clinic’s abortion license. The clinic cannot start performing abortions until they find a physician who meets the requirement that a doctor have local hospital admitting privileges.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A federal judge is weighing whether to allow a Missouri Planned Parenthood clinic to keep its abortion license past December during a court battle over its licensure. Planned Parenthood’s Columbia clinic stopped providing medication-induced abortions last month because its doctor lost state-required hospital privileges. As a result, the state health…
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) – The man accused of killing three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic says he’s guilty and that he’s a “warrior for the babies.” Robert Lewis Dear made the comments Wednesday during a court hearing for prosecutors to announce charges filed against him. The 57-year-old said he was guilty and that…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Republicans have overwhelmed Democrats in a vote to end Planned Parenthood’s federal funding. Thursday’s vote comes as the Senate moves toward approval of a bill that would all but repeal the president’s health care law. The bill would also take away the federal dollars that Planned Parenthood receives. Democrats tried restoring…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A judge has allowed a Missouri Planned Parenthood clinic to keep its abortion license until at least December 30. U.S. District Judge Nanette K. Laughrey on Wednesday said she’ll block the Department of Health and Senior Services from revoking a Columbia clinic’s license during a legal battle over its licensure.…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A Planned Parenthood chapter has filed a federal lawsuit against the acting director of Missouri’s health department to block the agency from revoking the abortion license for the group’s Columbia clinic. Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri sued Monday, seeking an injunction to preserve the Columbia clinic’s abortion facility license from…
CLAREMONT, N.H. (AP) – A Planned Parenthood clinic in New Hampshire has reopened nearly six weeks after police say it was badly damaged by a hatchet-wielding juvenile. The Claremont clinic reopened Monday, three days after police in Colorado Springs, Colorado, said a man opened fire on a Planned Parenthood clinic there, killing a police officer…
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The mayor of Colorado Springs says authorities aren’t ready to discuss a possible motive of the gunman who attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic there but says people can make “inferences from where it took place.” John Suthers says investigators have interviewed 57-year-old Robert Lewis Dear of North Carolina but says…