Women's Health

Group says Missouri cuts have hurt women's healthcare

Published in Women's Health Law Weekly, June 27th, 2004

In the year since Missouri lawmakers eliminated state grants for family planning and women's health care, at least 10 clinics have closed their women's health programs and others have reduced operating hours, an interest group said June 1, 2004.

The program offered health services to poor women who made too much money to qualify for government-run Medicaid but did not have employer-sponsored health insurance.

When Republicans took full control of the Legislature last year, they eliminated funding for the program, partly because of budget constraints and partly because of concerns that state money was going to affiliates of abortion-provider Planned...

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Source: Women's Health Law Weekly (2004-06-27)

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