A group of religious leaders who support abortion rights filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging Missouri's abortion ban, saying lawmakers openly invoked their religious beliefs while drafting the measure and thereby imposed those beliefs on others who don't share them.
Missouri lawmakers returned to work Wednesday for a session that Republican leaders have said will focus on issues including making it harder to amend the state Constitution.
Governor Mike Parson confirmed that the State of Missouri will carry out the sentence of (Scott) Amber McLaughlin as ordered by the Supreme Court of Missouri on Tuesday.