CNA Staff, Jun 26, 2020 / 11:09 am
The Missouri health department issued a license to the state's only abortion clinic Thursday. Its license had been revoked a year ago over regulators' concerns about health and safety problems at the clinic.
The state's Administrative Hearing Commission had ruled last month that the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services was wrong not to renew Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region's license to perform abortions.
The health department inspected the clinic in St. Louis before granting the license June 25. If it should want to appeal the ruling from the Administrative Hearing Commission, the health department must do so by June 29.
The license had been revoked in June 2019, but the administrative commission and a state judge both granted a temporary stay of the health department's decision, allowing the clinic to remain open while the case was reviewed.