Report: Missouri Failing Women

By: Mona Shand

After a legislative session in which the state passed harsh new abortion restrictions and failed yet again to expand Medicaid, advocates say it’s no surprise Missouri earned failing grades in a new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.

Seileach Corleigh is president of the Missouri chapter of the National Organization for Women, and she says this is the result of what she calls an all-out war on women led by conservative lawmakers.