Tessa Weinberg
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If the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion, a Missouri law would automatically kick in to ban the procedure except in medical emergencies. Republican lawmakers have also proposed bills that would take aim at abortions occurring across state lines.
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The Missouri Department of Social Services’ Children’s Division has come under intense scrutiny from lawmakers for low morale, low pay and high vacancies of caseworkers, which has led to caseworkers being assigned far more cases than they can handle.
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The bill still bans taxpayer funds from going to abortion providers or their affiliates, creates an offense for trafficking abortion-inducing drugs, and allows family members to bring wrongful death lawsuits in the instance that a baby “born alive” after an attempted abortion dies.
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The Missouri Attorney General's office often refuses to enforce a law designed to ensure government transparency because it considers state agencies like the Department of Health and Senior Services "a client." That leaves complainants with few options to obtain public records.
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The lawsuit follows passage of a supplemental budget bill that bars abortion providers or their affiliates from being reimbursed through Medicaid.
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The charter school funding measure is one of two bills backed by school-choice advocates that have now been sent to the Missouri Senate. The other would allow students to transfer to schools outside their district.
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If schools refused to certify their district had complied with Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s demands to drop any and all COVID-19 restrictions, thousands in savings to taxpayers were at risk. In the nearly three months since the state required the certification form, 21 districts signed and seven refused.
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Existing syringe exchange programs in St. Louis and Kansas City, allowing drug users to swap out used syringes with new clean ones to help fight diseases like HIV, have functioned for decades in a "grey area" of the law.
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After Missouri offered a Texas company a no-bid contract, only a little more than 200 temporary medical staff ended up being sent to hospitals, while monoclonal antibody treatments averaged more than $5,600 per patient.
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For two weeks before Missouri's state of emergency expired, health care organizations urged Gov. Mike Parson to extend it or give them enough notice it was ending to make accommodations. He did neither.