'Anything's on the table': Missouri legislature may revisit contraceptive limits post-Roe

The Missouri Senate voted last year to ban common forms of contraceptives from being paid for by the state’s Medicaid program


By the time state lawmakers return to the Capitol next year, nearly all abortions could be illegal in Missouri.

With a trigger ban already on the books that would go into effect if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, the GOP supermajority that controls the Missouri legislature is already mulling what types of policy changes they hope to pursue in a post-Roe world.

Reproductive rights advocates worry the next fight could be over access to contraceptives, which a group of conservative state senators unsuccessfully pushed to limit for Medicaid recipients last year.

“There are some that I think are okay and some that I don’t believe in,” state Sen. Denny Hoskins, R-Warrensburg, said of contraceptives, “especially the morning after pill and things that come after conception. So I think anything’s on the table.”

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