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Heidi Lucas photo courtesy of Whitney Lewis. Ashley Lucas photo courtesy of M.Levy. Heidi Lucas (left) and and her sister Ashley are both health care professionals and have opposing views on the COVID-19 vaccine. They are two sisters in two states. Both are dedicated health care professionals who watched in horror as COVID-19 swept through the nation’s nursing homes, killing a staggering number of residents and staff alike. One sister is now vaccinated. The other is not. “ Dude. Get vaccinated!” Heidi Lucas texted her sister Ashley in May from her home in Jefferson City, Missouri. “N...

Although the pro-life movement has faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalising abortion in the U.S., the movement continues to make legal and cultural gains. This is one of the latest. In July 2019, I wrote the blog “The Last Planned Parenthood Clinic in Missouri Again Evades Closure” about how the lone Planned Parenthood clinic in my home state of Missouri received multiple court-ordered reprieves from closure after the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) decided not to renew the facility’s license because of dozens of ...

By Tessa Weinberg Missouri Independent Nestled in the pages of Missouri’s initial plan for how to distribute the coronavirus vaccine was a paragraph touting that “Missouri’s population understands the importance of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.” A month later, in a revised version of the report, the paragraph was gone.  Instead, the updated plan featured a new section that targeted how the state would combat misinformation, complete with a website promising a page dedicated to “myth busters.” The revisions came after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s feedback was...