“We've seen people turned away from the emergency room when they needed emergency abortion care. We've seen women forced to wait until their complication was serious enough that they were able to access care or have to flee the state to get care in another state that they should be able to get in their own community.”

Mallory Schwarz · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-27

Schwarz described patients being turned away from emergency rooms and forced to flee Missouri for abortion care under the prior ban.