Planned Parenthood’s Missouri affiliates sued the state and various officials Wednesday to stop enforcement of various medically unnecessary restrictions that burden the ability to get an abortion in the state.
The group’s complaint came after Missourians voted on Tuesday to amend the state’s constitution to add a right to reproductive freedom. The amendment, which takes effect Dec. 5, “returns reproductive health care decisions back to where they belong: with individuals and their trusted health care providers, not Missouri politicians,” Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains and Planned Parenthood Great Rivers—Missouri said in their complaint.
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