At the St. Louis Clinic, four out of more than 4,000 patients who received abortions remained pregnant after the procedure, according to the data made public at the hearing. There’s no reason such a rate — less than one in 1,000 — should have concerned state officials, Brandi said: “It sounds, actually, like a quite safe facility.”

Failed abortions have become a focus of abortion opponents around the country in recent months, with President Trump and others claiming that infants are being born alive after abortion attempts and doctors are killing them (which experts say does not happen). But by using the narrative of abortion failure as an excuse to create a spreadsheet with patients’ periods, the health department is dragging their medical data into a larger effort aimed at shutting the clinic down, Planned Parenthood says.

…The health department director had previously not said much publicly about his position on abortion but at the hearings this week, he said he is “pro-life,” the Star reported on Tuesday.

…The fact that Missouri state officials were analyzing patients’ period data has inspired shock and concern among many. “State law requires the health department director to be ‘of recognized character and integrity,’” Democratic state Rep. Crystal Quade told the Star in a statement. “This unsettling behavior calls into question whether Doctor Williams meets that high standard.”

Meanwhile, Yamelsie Rodriguez, president of Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, called the news of the spreadsheet “deeply disturbing” in a statement to media. “Missouri’s top health official, Randall Williams, scrutinized menstrual cycles of women in this state in order to end abortion access,” she said.

Missouri officials tracked patients’ periods in abortion clinic battle – Vox

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