Missouri’s last abortion clinic can remain open after new ruling

A state administrator has ruled that Missouri’s only abortion clinic — a Planned Parenthood facility in St. Louis — can remain open. Sreenivasa Rao Dandamudi, Missouri administrative hearing commissioner, decided Friday that the state’s health department was wrong to deny the renewal of Planned Parenthood’s license, according to the Associated Press. “In over 4,000 abortions provided since 2018, the department has only identified two causes to deny its license,” Dandamudi wrote in…