This week, Missouri became one of seven states that now has only one clinic that provides abortions, after a second clinic was shut down over its inability to comply with an anti-abortion law that is currently being challenged in the courts.
The closure of the Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia, Missouri comes as a result of a law passed by the legislature in 2007 that mandated doctors who perform abortions to have what are known as hospital admitting privileges—an unnecessary and onerous requirement, and one that is essentially a business agreement, that many states in recent years have used to restrict access to abortions.
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