Anna Spoerre
Reporter, Missouri IndependentAnna Spoerre covers reproductive health care for The Missouri Independent. A graduate of Southern Illinois University, she most recently worked at the Kansas City Star where she focused on storytelling that put people at the center of wider issues. Before that she was a courts reporter for the Des Moines Register.
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Amendment 3 supporters are emphasizing restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors — even though Missouri already bans most of it — as they seek to overturn the abortion rights that voters approved in 2024. -
With a statewide vote on the line and national fights around mifepristone, the Missouri Abortion Fund has launched a campaign to remind Missourians they "always have options." -
Some conservatives argue the abortion restrictions in Missouri Amendment 3 don’t go far enough, a split that could matter in a race that recent polling shows is essentially tied -
The campaign to keep Missouri’s abortion rights amendment in place has so far outfundraised the campaign to reinstate a ban about 7 to 1, in part because of $5.3 million from the Fairness Project, a D.C.-based nonprofit that doesn’t have to disclose its donors. -
The statewide television and radio spot was developed with help from an anti-abortion medical group and will air through Sept. 30. It references a recent judge's ruling that struck down dozens of challenged abortion regulations as unconstitutional. -
In November, Missourians will be asked whether they want to repeal the abortion rights amendment they approved in 2024 and reinstate an abortion ban. Unions and reproductive rights groups already worked together to defeat Amendments 4 and 5 in the August election. -
The latest effort to expand insurance coverage to include IVF costs for military families died this year after Senate Republicans, including Missouri’s Eric Schmitt, voted to remove it from a defense spending bill. -
Planned Parenthood clinics in Kansas City, Columbia and St. Louis restarted procedural abortions in 2025. All four clinics, along with the Planned Parenthood in Gladstone, also offer medication abortion. -
The Stop the Ban campaign has raised more than $6.5 million. The leading political action committee on the other side, called Her Health, Her Future PAC, has raised just over $1 million as of last week. -
A Planned Parenthood clinic in Springfield began providing medication abortion Monday while also expanding pain management for IUD placements and biopsies. It's the fifth clinic to begin offering the service after a June court decision struck down Missouri's restrictions.
