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The mobile clinic will be part of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, and will provide medication abortions up to 11 weeks gestation. It’s expected to launch later this year.

Earlier this year, some Republican lawmakers in Missouri unsuccessfully tried to ban taxpayer funding for emergency contraception, which some lawmakers consider a form of abortion.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said he has no plans to call a special legislative session to protect access to contraceptives and address ectopic pregnancies. Democratic leaders called on the governor to hold a special session now that the state has banned nearly all abortions.

Missouri has now banned abortion in the state, except in cases where a parent’s health is severely threatened. But the full effects of the state’s ban and its legal ramifications are still to be seen, and activists on both sides say their work is far from over.

Almost all abortions will immediately become illegal in Missouri if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. But some reproductive rights advocates worry that access to contraceptives could be targeted next. Plus, how Missouri and Kansas politicians are reacting to the deadly school shooting in Texas.

If Missouri's abortion ban takes effect, reproductive rights advocates worry the next fight could be over birth control. The Missouri Senate voted last year to ban common forms of contraceptives like the “morning after” pill and some IUDs from being paid for by the state’s Medicaid program.

The tax on health care providers is free of controversial amendments, but the same committee passed a separate bill that would defund Planned Parenthood.

The tax crucial to Medicaid’s funding heads to the House after hours of behind-closed-doors discussion

The Missouri legislature needs to finalize an agreement to accept major Medicaid funding from the federal government, but Republican lawmakers aren’t on the same page. The fight is over birth control.

The plastic, T-shaped device provides long-term birth control for up to 10 years and was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1984.

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