Article: Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Missouri says loss in court aids federal case

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 ...

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