Abortion Rights

The 18,000-square foot facility is located in Illinois—just 13 miles from Missouri’s lone abortion clinic, which is currently under fire.

The law will benefit the students at public universities in the state, who are predominantly people of color and may face geographic and economic hurdles to obtaining the medical procedure.

“We believe that the Trump administration is doing this as an attack on reproductive health care and to keep providers like Planned Parenthood from serving our patients.” 

Dr. Leana Wen, who is leaving after eight months, maintains that abortion is a health care—not political—issue.

Abortion providers in 49 states will lose federal money if they refer patients for the medical procedure.

It is the first time a city has used its budget to step into the national abortion battle.

The justices did not rule on the part of the law that addresses the constitutionality of the medical procedure.

The nation’s most restrictive law was drafted with the hope that it will lead to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.

A federal judge called the regulation a “ham-fisted approach to public health policy’” that would harm lower-income earning women.