Changes to Missouri’s patient safety laws and health and safety regulations for abortion facilities after the Comprehensive Health v. State of Missouri decision:

• Abortion facilities no longer need to have a state-license to operate.
• Abortion providers no longer need to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.
• Abortion providers no longer need to have emergency plans if their patients experience complications.
• Abortion providers no longer need to maintain tail insurance.
• Abortion providers no longer need to generate pathology reports.
• Abortion providers no longer need to report complications from abortion treatments.
• Abortion providers no longer need to provide women a packet of medical information that ensures they provide informed consent to an abortion procedure.
• Abortion providers no longer need to provide women 72-hours to understand and digest information about abortion procedures before consenting to such.
• A physician no longer needs to be present when medication abortion is administered.
• Abortion facilities no longer need to certify that each abortion was not sought solely due to the race, sex, or down syndrome diagnosis of the child.
• A person who experiments on a fetus no longer will face criminal penalties.
• A person who performs an abortion on a minor without parental or court approval no longer will face criminal penalties.
• Abortion providers who fail to report statutory rape no longer will face criminal penalties.
• A person who performs an abortion where the child was conceived for the purpose of providing fetal organs or tissue for transplantation no longer will face criminal penalties.
• A person who offers a monetary inducement to obtain an abortion for medical experimentation will no longer face criminal penalties.
• An abortion provider can perform an abortion post-viability without a second physician agreeing that the abortion is necessary.

Last updated August 14, 2026.