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Eighth Circuit: Missouri Prisoner Has Right to Elective Abortion

The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has held that the Missouri Department of Corrections’ (MDOC) blanket policy of prohibiting the transport of female prisoners to outside medical facilities for elective, non-therapeutic abortions violated the Fourteenth Amendment.

An anonymous MDOC prisoner identified as Jane Roe (and later, a class of ...

 

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