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A Missouri appeals court upheld a lower court's decision to block several abortion restrictions.

The ruling allows Planned Parenthood clinics in Missouri to continue providing procedural abortions.

The court rejected the attorney general's argument that Missourians could simply travel to other states for care.

Abortion will remain available at Planned Parenthood clinics in Missouri, the Western District Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday, Oct. 14, rejecting a request by the attorney general’s office to reinstate several restrictions on the procedure.

Earlier this year, former-Attorney General Andrew Bailey accused Jackson County Judge Jerri Zhang of abusing her discretion when she issued a temporary injunction that struck down several “targeted regulation of aborti

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