Planned Parenthood can continue performing abortions at its St. Louis clinic for now, a Missouri commission says, while the organization appeals the state health department's decision to deny a renewal of its abortion facility license
Abortion Fast FactsThis is the latest in a series of reprieves that the clinic -- the only one currently allowed to provide abortions in Missouri -- has received in recent days as it has fought to stay open.Missouri's Administrative Hearing Commission effectively extended the clinic's license Friday, granting Planned Parenthood's request that the commission stay the state health department's decision to deny the renewal until Planned Parenthood's appeal can be heard.
CT Friday -- giving Planned Parenthood time to seek, and ultimately receive, the temporary reprieve from the state AHC.Missouri could become first state with no abortion clinicWilliams said his department did not re-up the license because Planned Parenthood failed to correct 26 of 30 deficiencies found by regulators, and abortion doctors refused to cooperate in the investigation.
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