Ruling Means Missouri’s Last Abortion Clinic Stays Open

Planned Parenthood clinic is seen in St. Louis, Mo., on June 4, 2019. Jeff Roberson/AP Photo

O'FALLON, Mo.—Missouri’s only abortion clinic will be able to keep operating after a state government administrator decided Friday that the health department was wrong not to renew the license of the Planned Parenthood facility in St. Louis.

Missouri Administrative Hearing Commissioner Sreenivasa Rao Dandamudi’s decision means Missouri will not become the first state without a functioning abortion clinic since 1974, the year after the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.