The Missouri Attorney General’s Office has subpoenaed Planned Parenthood Great Plains, Planned Parenthood, and Planned Parenthood Great Rivers for patient medical records, incident reports, “adverse event documentation,” and communications about patient care. The subpoena also requested operational and clinical protocols, equipment maintenance records, contractual arrangements, and documentation of compliance.
The Missouri Attorney General’s Office seeks to argue in favor of keeping in place several regulations that are currently in place. The regulations include:
- That abortion clinics be licensed as ambulatory surgical centers.
- A 72-hour waiting period between a patient’s initial visit with a doctor and their abortion procedure.
- Require abortion providers report all abortions and abortion complications to the state.
- Require that the same physician who initially sees a patient must also be the physician who performs the abortion procedure.
- Current law requires that only physicians can perform abortions, excluding physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses.
The day after Amendment 3 passed in November 2024, Planned Parenthood and the ACLU of Missouri sued the state in an effort to remove several abortion regulations that remain part of state statute, arguing that those regulations are now unconstitutional because they burden abortion patients and providers.
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