Planned Parenthood in Missouri filed suit Tuesday to prevent the doors from being closed on its last clinic in Missouri, which is currently the only abortion clinic operating in the state.
The controversy comes in the wake of Missouri passing a ban on abortions beyond the eighth week of pregnancy.
The license for the St. Louis-based clinic is set to expire Friday, and the state and Planned Parenthood are at an impasse over the results of a state audit of the facility. The state gave the facility three conditions to meet before their license could be renewed. Planned Parenthood told the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services on May 20th that it could meet two of those demands—to adjust the personnel who offer state-mandated counseling at the clinic and add an additional pelvic exam for women who are having an abortion, even those administered by a pill.
Planned Parenthood said they were complying with the pelvic exam even though a physician at the clinic described it as “unnecessary,” “medically irrelevant,” and “borderline harassment.”
The two sides cannot agree on a resolution to the third condition, which is the department’s demand to interview seven physicians who provide services at the clinic as part of an investigation into “deficient practices.”
Helene Krasnoff, head of litigation at Planned Parenthood of America, said they…
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