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Article: Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Missouri says loss in court aids federal case
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- St. Charles County Business Record
- Article date:
- May 13, 2008
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Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Missouri lost an effort on
Friday to strike down what they say is a burdensome state law. Then
again, maybe they didn't lose at all.
As the organization wages a two-pronged effort to overturn a
Missouri law that tightens regulations for abortion clinics,
seemingly negative decisions in state court ultimately could help it
present its case at the federal level by proving the group has
suffered harm, an attorney for the group said Monday.
Planned Parenthood says a 2007 state law classifying some of the
organization's clinics as ambulatory surgery centers would require
it to extensively upgrade its facilities -- even those such as the
Kansas City clinic that ...