Missouri is down to a single abortion clinic in the entire state — a lone Planned Parenthood in St. Louis — but on Friday, a judge announced that the state’s health department ruled against renewing the clinic’s license, which was set to expire on May 31. The move, as CNN underscores, will make Missouri “the first state without an abortion clinic in almost 50 years.”
“A judge had ordered the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to decide by Friday whether it would renew a license for the clinic, Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region,” CNN reports. The department’s ruling was revealed in court Friday by Judge Michael Stelzer, who said that the clinic will be allowed to remain open until the court issues a further order.
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