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Anna Spoerre covers reproductive health care for The Missouri Independent. A graduate of Southern Illinois University, she most recently worked at the Kansas City Star where she focused on storytelling that put people at the center of wider issues. Before that she was a courts reporter for the Des Moines Register.
The Center for American Progress estimates the proposal could lead to 34,000 additional deaths every year.
By Jesse Valentine - April 24, 2025
Forty percent of student loan debtors do not have college degrees.
By Jesse Valentine - April 22, 2025
Billionaire Harlan Crow is associated with groups that support cuts to Social Security
By Jesse Valentine - April 21, 2025
Allie Phillips could have died carrying her unviable fetus. She fought back by running for office & finally vowed not let lawmakers kill her dream of being a mom. Her story:
By Bonnie Fuller - April 21, 2025
The financial firm says an increase in manufacturing jobs would likely be offset by massive losses in other sectors.
By Jesse Valentine - April 17, 2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia had been in the country for 14 years and had protected status when ICE agents arrested him on March 15.
By Jesse Valentine - April 16, 2025
Attorney General Jeff Jacskon was elected with 52% of the vote.
By Jesse Valentine - April 11, 2025
Retirement savings plans have lost significant value as a result of Trump’s trade war.
By Jesse Valentine - April 09, 2025
Trump’s international tariff plan has created chaos for global markets and supply chains.
By Jesse Valentine - April 08, 2025
Democrats are calling for acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek to resign.
By Jesse Valentine - April 03, 2025
The repeal was co-sponsored by North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis
By Jesse Valentine - April 03, 2025
Samantha Casiano, an east Texas mother of four, tells her story to COURIER Texas writer Bonnie Fuller.
By Bonnie Fuller - March 28, 2025
Republicans in the state legislature have already introduced more bills seeking to restrict the availability of the abortion medications mifepristone and misoprostol.
By Bonnie Fuller - March 28, 2025
Trump promised to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 24 hours and secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
By Jesse Valentine - March 28, 2025
Governors in New Hampshire and Nevada are campaigning as champions of education while backing cuts to public schools.
By Jesse Valentine - March 26, 2025
A bill in the Montana House of Representatives would make it a crime to “traffick a fetus” across state lines.
By Jesse Valentine - March 18, 2025
Decreasing vaccination rates have caused a measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico.
By Jesse Valentine - March 11, 2025
The move has been criticized by voters across the political spectrum, including some on the far-right.
By Jesse Valentine - March 10, 2025
Bacon was reelected by less than 6000 votes. Approximately 78,000 of his constituents receive Medicaid.
By - February 28, 2025
Dr. Oz’s business associates could benefit from the change.
By Jesse Valentine - February 27, 2025
President Donald Trump fired the person in charge of investigating Medicaid fraud last month.
By Jesse Valentine - February 26, 2025
McMahon, the co-founder of World Wrestling Entertainment, contributed $15 million to Trump’s reelection campaign.
By Jesse Valentine - February 13, 2025
Three attorneys general argue federal laws around the mifepristone make it difficult for states to enforce abortion bans
By Anna Spoerre, Missouri Independent - October 22, 2024
“This is not the end all, be all,” state Sen. Elizabeth Coleman said. “And I think you will see efforts, win or lose, for Missourians to get another say in this”
By Anna Spoerre, Missouri Independent - September 25, 2024
The director of one of the campaign’s biggest donors said it’s impossible to ‘achieve anything without a campaign that is grounded in grassroots support and the support of Missouri voters’
By Anna Spoerre, Missouri Independent - September 13, 2024
The ballot question was among four citizen-led measures certified by the Missouri Secretary of State’s Office for the November ballot
By Anna Spoerre, Missouri Independent - August 13, 2024
Dozens of Missouri doctors joined in asking the court to uphold a federal law that allows doctors to perform emergency abortions in states with bans
By Anna Spoerre, Missouri Independent - June 18, 2024
Planned Parenthood says they will continue offsetting the costs of seeing patients on Medicaid despite a bill signed into law Thursday
By Anna Spoerre, Missouri Independent - May 09, 2024
A bill that would improve health care access for Missouri women almost died in the House after some lawmakers conflated birth control legislation with abortion medication
By Anna Spoerre, Missouri Independent - May 08, 2024
A GOP-backed bill would block Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood. Health care providers fear it will harm patients’ access to critical care
By Anna Spoerre, Missouri Independent - March 28, 2024
As amendments aimed at legalizing abortion in cases of rape or incest were voted down, one Republican state senator defended the decision saying, ‘God does not make mistakes’
By Anna Spoerre, Missouri Independent and Rudi Keller, Missouri Independent - February 08, 2024
The campaign has the support of the major abortion advocacy groups in Missouri, but it’s also drawn criticism from activists over its fetal viability standard
By Anna Spoerre, Missouri Independent - January 19, 2024