Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. House Speaker Jon Patterson delivers his opening day speech Wednesday to the Missouri House (Tim Bommel/Missouri House ...

INDIANAPOLIS — For the last five decades, the legal precedence of the U.S. Supreme Court reiterated that states could not ban a woman’s constitutional right to have an abortion before the point it ...

Anti-abortion protestors stood outside of the Clay County Election Board during early voting on Monday, November 4, urging people to vote no on Amendment 3. The constitutional amendment approved by ...

Missouri abortion rights supporters hold a celebratory press conference outside the state Capitol after the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that Amendment 3 can remain on the ballot. Kacen Bayless ...

When Missouri voters decide in less than three weeks whether to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution, the ballot measure before them will include a legal definition of fetal viability ...

The day he was sworn in as speaker of the Missouri House, Jon Patterson declared that defining fetal viability could be a difficult task. A surgeon serving his fourth term in the legislature, ...