Missouri must pay Planned Parenthood $140,000 in legal fees

Published: Feb. 27, 2021 at 4:25 PM CST
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A failed bid to shut down Missouri’s lone abortion provider will cost the state $140,000.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Administration Hearing Commissioner Sreenivasa Rao Dandamudi granted on Friday the request by Planned Parenthood for legal fees as well as $6,600 spent on an expert witness.
A four-day trial in October 2019 highlighted the state’s efforts to close the facility by denying it a license to operate based on allegations it had botched abortions.
Planned Parenthood contended the state picked a handful of difficult cases out of thousands of otherwise successful abortions.
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