Abortions will be allowed to continue at Planned Parenthood clinics in Missouri , a state appeals court has ruled, finding that a lower court's original order was not out of bounds.

The 40-page decision by the state's Western District Court of Appeals handed the Missouri Attorney General's Office a loss as it seeks to have several abortion regulations reinstated. The appeals court made clear its assignment was to consider whether 16th Judicial Circuit Judge Jerri Zhang's preliminary injunction "abused its discretion" — and it found that the circuit court did not.

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The case can most aptly be charted back to November 2024, when Missouri voters approved

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