Judge said state\u2019s ban \u2018clearly contrary\u2019 to recently passed constitutional amendment but left other laws in place<\/p>\n
More than two months after Missouri residents voted to add abortion rights into their state constitution and overturn the state\u2019s ban on the procedure, abortions have not yet resumed in Missouri<\/a> \u2013 and it\u2019s not clear when they will, according to a key Planned Parenthood official in the region.<\/p>\n The day after the election, Missouri Planned Parenthood affiliates filed a lawsuit<\/a> asking the court to eliminate a slew of abortion restrictions that, the affiliates said, made it impossible to perform the procedure. On Friday evening, the Jackson county circuit court judge Jerri Zhang ruled that several restrictions, including the state\u2019s near-total ban, were \u201cclearly contrary\u201d to the state\u2019s new constitutional amendment and could not be enforced.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Judge said state\u2019s ban \u2018clearly contrary\u2019 to recently passed constitutional amendment but left other laws in place More than two months after Missouri residents voted to add abortion rights into their state constitution and overturn the state\u2019s ban on the procedure, abortions have not yet resumed in Missouri \u2013 and it\u2019s not clear when they … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}