Dr. Randall Williams, director of Missouri's Department of Health and Senior Services, testified on Tuesday that he kept a spreadsheet tracking the menstrual cycles of women who visited a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis.
He discussed the matter during an administrative hearing, which will determine whether the clinic — the only one in Missouri to provide abortions — will lose its license to perform the procedure. In June, the state refused to renew the license, claiming there were concerns over four women having to return to the clinic because they had failed abortions; a federal judge ordered the clinic to remain open. Planned Parenthood says Missouri "cherry-picked" these cases, ignoring thousands of routine abortions and focusing on those outside the norm.
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