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It’s time for Missouri hospitals to find their voice and fight back
Feb 22, 2023 | By Colleen McNicholas in The Missouri Independent
Featuring MSFC’s alumna, Dr. Colleen McNicholas.
As one of the last abortion providers in Missouri, I was part of the fight to preserve reproductive freedom, a fight that was siloed, isolated and othered in the practice of medicine.
Today, the same medical institutions that stayed silent on abortion are now the targets of attacks we, as abortion providers, long ago warned about.
For example, in 2015–2016, several Missouri agencies investigated Planned Parenthood and found no wrongdoing. Despite that, the Senate Interim Committee on the Sanctity of Life, whose singular focus was to investigate and malign Planned Parenthood, pressured the University of Missouri Hospital to cancel my clinical privileges, forcing the closure of abortion services at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia…
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