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Today, Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains (PPGP), Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region (RHS), and the ACLU of Missouri filed suit in state court to protect access to safe, legal abortion in Missouri. In their lawsuit, the nonprofits ask the court to block Senate Bill 5, a law recently passed during special session that severely restricts access to safe, legal abortion for Missourians.

All children have the constitutional right to an equal education.

All children have the constitutional right to an equal education.

SPRINGFIELD, MO – The ACLU of Missouri is pleased that a court has agreed to permanently eradicate Springfield’s 2015 discriminatory and unconstitutional ordinance, which made it illegal for women to show any portion of their breasts beneath the areola, but not men.

SPRINGFIELD, MO – The ACLU of Missouri is pleased that a court has agreed to permanently eradicate Springfield’s 2015 discriminatory and unconstitutional ordinance, which made it illegal for women to show any portion of their breasts beneath the areola, but not men.

Board Bill 134 also repeals city’s problematic “unlawful assembly” ordinance

“We are deeply concerned with the reports of excessive use of force by law enforcement officers at a demonstration Friday night in downtown St. Louis.

ST. LOUIS –  The ACLU of Missouri today filed a lawsuit against the city of St. Louis and St. Clair County, Ill., for police misconduct during protests following the killing of Mansur Ball-Bey by a St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officer in 2015.

Today, the ACLU of Missouri asked a federal court to require the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department to immediately adopt protocols to protect the Constitutional rights of those observing, recording or participating in protest activity.