Spent Family-Planning Funds Safe
Anti-abortion legislators have enacted tight restrictions that bar state funding for all family planning grants in Missouri. But Planned Parenthood won’t have to repay about $900,000 awarded by the state department of health for family planning services several years ago, a Missouri Supreme Court has ruled. The suit challenging the grants was filed by the CEO of Gateway Medical Research Inc., a company that recruits locals to participate in clinical trials for generic drugs. DAVID A. LIEB reports for the Associated Press in the Kansas City Star.
In Alabama, where one abortion clinic was recently shut down, state officials met with anti-abortion groups before deciding that safety rules aren't clear and should be revised. Associated Press reporter DESIREE HUNTER's story appears in the Ledger-Enquirer.