Dr. David Stansfield, a retired family medicine physician, recently spoke with the St. Louis Review about the critical need to restore basic protections for women at abortion clinics that were lost after the passage of the 2024 pro-abortion constitutional amendment.
In June, Judge Jerri Zhang issued a permanent injunction striking down several state abortion laws that were challenged under that amendment. Among those provisions were special licensing requirements for abortion providers, state inspections of abortion clinics, admitting privileges requirements, and the state’s requirement that a physician be physically present when a patient takes abortion medication.
Dr. Stansfield, president of the Catholic Medical Association’s St. Louis Guild, stated that Amendment 3 is a step in the right direction toward more ethical and medically responsible abortion regulations. You can read the full article in the St. Louis Review.
You can also listen to Dr. Stansfield talk about the repercussions of the 2024 constitutional amendment that removed safety and health protections at abortion clinics. Dr. Stansfield discusses the reasons to support the passage of Amendment 3 on the latest MCC from the Capitol podcast with Jamie Morris, Missouri Catholic Conference Executive Director, here.