Abortions halted again in Missouri after state Supreme Court ruling

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Source: NBC News/AP

May 27, 2025, 7:21 PM EDT


JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Planned Parenthood halted abortions in Missouri on Tuesday after the state's top court ordered new rulings in the tumultuous legal saga over a ban that voters struck down last November.

The state's top court ruled that a district judge applied the wrong standard in rulings in December and February that allowed abortions to resume in the state. Nearly all abortions were halted under a ban that took effect after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

In Tuesday's two-page ruling, the court ordered Judge Jerri Zhang to vacate her earlier orders and reevaluate the case using the standards the court laid out. Zhang ruled that she was allowing abortions to resume largely because advocates were likely to prevail in the case eventually. The Supreme Court said it should first consider whether there would be harms from allowing abortions to resume.

The state emphasized in its petition filed to the state Supreme Court in March that Planned Parenthood didn't sufficiently prove women were harmed without the temporary blocks on the broad swath of laws and regulations on abortion services and providers. On the contrary, the state said Zhang's decisions left abortion facilities "functionally unregulated" and women with "no guarantee of health and safety."

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1. Missouri's citizens voted for abortion..............

so the courts and politicians can now overturn the will of the people?

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2. Welcome to Missouri....

where the will/vote of the people means nothing.

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3. Go against the voters MSC, they will vote you out of a job.

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4. That state always elects criminal republicans

Too many racists and ne'er do wells live there. So many KKKers exposed by "Anonymous" after the Michael Brown killing. Whole lotta groups of that scum just passing messages on Facebook for years. Nauseating. Nothing's improved. Only gotten worse. They're expecting jeeeeesuss to return and give them all a hug If you live there, sorry and best of luck.

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5. KC and StL are the still blue dots

Lived there back in the Mel Carnahan days.

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6. Yes! Like Austin and many other RW states

The problem is the congression delegations aren't representing the voters. Only corporations and thugs like tRUMP