Temporary orders have allowed abortion care to resume in Missouri for the first time in years. But a trial will need to take place to overturn the state's ban permanently.

Planned Parenthood says it will begin offering abortions in Missouri after a state judge blocked licensing requirements for abortion clinics.

Abortions resumed in Missouri over the weekend following a ruling blocking regulations that clinics said made it impossible to provide abortions despite a new constitutional amendment for reproductive rights,

A Kansas City judge scheduled a trial for next year that could permanently remove Missouri’s abortion ban. The trial date comes after a Jackson County judge put a temporary hold on licensing restrictions last week,

Sometime after 10 a.m., Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains performed the first elective abortion in the state since voters overturned the state’s ban in November. The moment also marked the first abortion at its Kansas City clinic since 2018.

Abortion opponents had tried to block, or severely limit, the procedure, against the will of voters who in November enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution.

ST. LOUIS — As abortion services resume in Missouri, protesters returned to the sidewalks outside the Planned Parenthood offices in St. Louis this week in the frigid cold.

Abortions are set to resume in Missouri after a judge blocked regulations that had restricted providers even after voters approved enshrining abortion rights into the state’s constitution.