Missouri is keeping binders full of women’s menstrual cycles.

Missouri, which has a population of over 6.1 million people, has only one abortion clinic.
 For rightwing zealots, however, that is one too many.
The Missouri hearing, which concluded on Thursday, has been a master class in gaslighting and misogyny. According to the Missouri department of health and senior services (DHSS), the reason they want to revoke the clinic’s license is because they really, really care about women’s health – it has absolutely nothing to do with controlling women’s bodies!
The DHSS’s case rests on four instances of what it calls “failed abortions” – cases where complications arose and the patient had to return to the clinic for another procedure.
 As it turns out, the DHSS is so concerned about women’s health it has been keeping spreadsheets tracking the date of Planned Parenthood patients’ periods, in an attempt to figure out which of them “had undergone failed abortions”.
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