The Population Institute recently released its annual report card on reproductive health and rights, and Missouri got a big fat F.
Anyone who is surprised by that grade either hasn’t been paying attention or has been living under a rock for the last few years.
While the leadership in Jefferson City spent most of last year shoving their 72-hour anti-abortion bill into law, important reproductive health care policy that would actually reduce the number of abortions and improve the health of Missourians was left on the curb.
Missourians deserve better that another session full of legislative “solutions” in search of problems. The criteria used by the Population Institute doesn’t just provide a window into why Missouri got that F...it serves as a pretty darn good to-do list of things to improve Missourians' reproductive health.
This session, lawmakers should...
There's no better time than the present, MOLeg.