The Missouri Supreme Court on May 27 overturned a pair of lower court rulings that had blocked the state’s abortion restrictions, effectively leaving its ban in place — for now.

Missouri’s ban on most abortions, which went into effect after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in June 2022, was rejected by the state’s voters in November.

Circuit Court Judge Jerri Zhang in Kansas City issued injunctions against the ban after that election, one in December and another in February.

The state’s high court issued a procedural order to Zhang to vacate those injunctions against the abortion ban, finding the judge had applied the wrong standards in doing so. The order will, in effect, again ban abortion in the state. However, the ruling direc

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