page_title: Abortion in Missouri
section_title: Abortion rights views and activities
hierarchical_section_title: Abortion in Missouri / Abortion rights views and activities
caption_attribution_description: Thousands of women (and men) marched in St. Louis to demonstrate their beauty, strength and diversity - and to stand in solidarity with women marching all across the world that day, January 21, 2017, the day after the inauguration of Donald Trump. Many of us wore 'pussy hats' that we'd knitted to take back the power of the 'pussy,' a power so awesome that it has the new misogynistic president of the United States quaking.
context_page_description: Abortion in Missouri is legal.
  In 1900, Missouri criminalized abortion. It was legalized after the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. Peaking at 29 abortion clinics in 1982, the number of began to decline, going from twelve in 1992 to one in 2014, down to zero for a time in 2016, but back to one from 2017 to May 2019 when the last remaining clinic announced it would likely lose its license. However, the clinic remains open as of 2020.
  A parental consent law came into effect in 1990. Informed consent laws existed by 2007.
  According to Guttmacher Institute, in 2017, there were 4,710 abortions in Missouri, and that there was an eight percent decline in the abortion rate in Missouri between 2014 and 2017, from 4.4 to 4.0 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age. Abortions in Missouri represent 0.5 percent of all abortions in the United States.
  In 2017, about 33 percent of abortions were medicated abortions.
  The state saw anti-abortion rights violence in 2000 in Marion County.
caption: Women's March on St. Louis 1-21-17
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