The day he was sworn in as speaker of the Missouri House, Jon Patterson declared that defining fetal viability could be a difficult task. A surgeon serving his fourth term in the legislature, ...

When Missouri voters decide in less than three weeks whether to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution, the ballot measure before them will include a legal definition of fetal viability ...

Missouri abortion rights supporters hold a celebratory press conference outside the state Capitol after the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that Amendment 3 can remain on the ballot. Kacen Bayless ...

Kate Dineen was about 33 weeks pregnant with her second child when an ultrasound revealed that her baby had suffered a catastrophic stroke in utero and would likely either die before birth or have a ...

THEM YET. THEY’LL MEET AGAIN IN JANUARY AND FETAL VIABILITY IS ALSO A KEY ISSUE IN NEBRASKA’S LATEST ABORTION FIGHT. WOMEN’S RIGHTS GROUP VOTERS WILL REVERSE A 12 WEEK BAN, BUT OPPONENTS SAY THE ...

An ultrasound machine sits in a room where at Whole Womans Health of South Bend on Oct. 29, 2021. Credit - Taylor Glascock—The Washington Post/Getty Images The fall of Roe v. Wade on June 24 marked ...

ABORTION IS ONE OF THE MAIN ISSUES THAT WILL DRIVE VOTERS TO THE POLLS THIS YEAR. TEN STATES ARE VOTING ON IT. GOOD EVENING. I’M ROB MCCARTNEY. I’M QUANECIA FRASER. NEBRASKA IS THE ONLY STATE THAT HAS ...

House Speaker Jon Patterson delivers his opening day speech Wednesday to the Missouri House (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications). The day he was sworn in as speaker of the Missouri House, Jon ...

Fetal viability may be the crux of how anti-abortion lawmakers target the procedure. The constitutional amendment approved by voters protects abortion access up until the point of fetal viability, the ...