When a doctor starts asking a new mother about feelings of depression, therapist Haley Walker said the patient may be thinking about more than her actual symptoms. “[It] can feel scary as a new mom,” ...

Nearly 2,400 women were killed by men in 2024, according to a recent Violence Policy Center report. Nearly nine out of 10 knew their killer, and firearms were used in 63.4 percent of these homicides. ...

Public health officials and medical experts worry that declining vaccination rates will lead to more children getting infected with preventable diseases.

“I was 25 when I started. I can’t believe I still have to fight for women’s reproductive rights at 75,” Marlene Hammerman told me. Marlene notarized hundreds of signature sheets as a volunteer for…

North Carolina teens are facing criminal charges after allegedly attempting to self-manage her abortion using pills.

Nearly 1 in 4 young people can't identify basic facts about birth control. Birth control has been around for decades. Information about it is widely available online, on social media, through health c...

“I was 25 when I started. I can’t believe I still have to fight for women’s reproductive rights at 75,” Marlene Hammerman told me. Marlene notarized hundreds of signature sheets as a volunteer for the...

Missouri officials threatened a Columbia library’s funding over an LGBTQ+ story time but did not identify conduct that violated state law.

The fear of losing their lives is precisely what many pregnant Texas residents say they’ve experienced after four young women died in the state when they were unable to access medically necessary abor...

The tax break at the center of the ad was created by Missouri lawmakers — and the measure would leave it to lawmakers to revisit.

Later abortion is one of the most stigmatized and least understood aspects of reproductive health, and yet some of the voices perpetuating that stigma come from inside the reproductive rights movement...

When the Annual Supply of Contraception bill was passed by the 2026 Missouri Legislature, we were thrilled - and we know you were, too! This achievement took years, involved many organizations, indivi...

A group of Missouri parents has coalesced to fight Amendment 5, worrying the proposal would have dire effects on public education.

Read the latest information about upcoming Missouri amendments. Updated as of May 22, 2026.

Missouri voters approved a constitutional amendment in 2016 barring state and local governments from imposing new sales taxes on most services — a measure its backers pitched as protection against fut...

This year, Missouri joins Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Florida in use of an A-F public school and district grading framework. In this accou...