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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.

Now that Roe v. Wade has been toppled, abortion opponents are taking a multifaceted approach in their quest to end abortions nationwide, targeting their strategies to the dynamics of each state as they attempt to create new laws and defend bans in courts.

The state health department released a factsheet on the law Wednesday following questions & confusion since the abortion ban kicked in when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade

Governor Mike Parson signed a proclamation giving legal effect to Section 188.017 RSMo and activating the "Right to Life of the Unborn Child Act."

The Supreme Court has struck down a New York gun law in a ruling expected to directly impact half a dozen other populous states.

Liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring.