If the embattled Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region is forced to close, Missouri would become the only state in the country without an abortion clinic.
During the hearing, the state will call three physician witnesses, which Planned Parenthood Advocates in Missouri referred to in a statement as"experts in anti-abortion advocacy dressed up as misleading medical jargon."
"The State is calling them because they support the coordinated effort to ban safe, legal abortion in Missouri," it said ahead of the hearing. Missouri is one of six states that has only one abortion clinic. The other five states are Kentucky, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota and West Virginia, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights.
The licensing fight comes amid a slew of recent anti-abortion legislation across the country, including a near-total ban on abortions in Alabama. Organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union are suing to block the bans, which they say are unconstitutional under the 1973 Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision that federally legalized abortion.
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