Abortion in Missouri

As of 2022, abortion in Missouri is illegal, with abortions only being legal in cases of medical emergency and several additional laws making access to abortion services difficult.^[1] In 2014, a poll by the Pew Research Center found that 52% of Missouri adults said that abortion should be legal vs. 46% that believe it should be illegal in all or most cases. ^[2] According to a 2014 Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) study, 51% of white women in the state believed that abortion is legal in all or most cases.^[3]

Abortion in Missouri was legalized after the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. Peaking at 29 abortion clinics in 1982, the number began to decline, going from twelve in 1992 to one in 2014, down to zero for a time in 2016, but back to one from 2017 to May 2019 when the last remaining clinic announced it would likely lose its license. However, the clinic remained open as of 2020.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, in 2017, there were 4,710 abortions in Missouri. There was an eight percent decline in the abortion rate in Missouri between 2014 and 2017, from 4.4 to 4.0 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age. Abortions in Missouri represent 0.5 percent of all abortions in the United States.^{[citation needed]}

In 2017, about 33 percent of abortions were medication abortions.^{[citation needed]}

The state saw anti-abortion rights violence in 2000 in Marion County.^{[citation needed]}^[4]

On 24 June 2022, following the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt signed a proclamation bringing into effect the state's "trigger law", banning all non-medically necessary abortions.^[5]

^ Vagianos, Alanna (2022-06-24). "Abortion Is Now Illegal In These States". Yahoo! News. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
^ "Views about abortion by state - Religion in America: U.S. Religious Data, Demographics and Statistics". Pew Research Center. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
^ Brownstein, Ronald (2019-05-23). "White Women Are Helping States Pass Abortion Restrictions". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2019-05-26.
^ Jacobsen, Mirielle; Royer, Heather (December 2010). "Aftershocks: The Impact of Clinic Violence on Abortion Services". National Bureau of Economic Research. Working Paper Series. doi:10.3386/w16603. S2CID 11034855.
^ "Abortion ends in Missouri following SCOTUS ruling". 24 June 2022.

[:12-1] Vagianos, Alanna (2022-06-24). "Abortion Is Now Illegal In These States". Yahoo! News. Retrieved 2022-06-24.

[2] "Views about abortion by state - Religion in America: U.S. Religious Data, Demographics and Statistics". Pew Research Center. Retrieved 2019-05-23.

[3] Brownstein, Ronald (2019-05-23). "White Women Are Helping States Pass Abortion Restrictions". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2019-05-26.

[4] Jacobsen, Mirielle; Royer, Heather (December 2010). "Aftershocks: The Impact of Clinic Violence on Abortion Services". National Bureau of Economic Research. Working Paper Series. doi:10.3386/w16603. S2CID 11034855.

[5] "Abortion ends in Missouri following SCOTUS ruling". 24 June 2022.

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