The day he was sworn in as speaker of the Missouri House, Jon Patterson declared that defining fetal viability could be a difficult task. A surgeon serving his fourth term in the legislature, ...

When Missouri voters decide in less than three weeks whether to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution, the ballot measure before them will include a legal definition of fetal viability ...

Fetal viability refers to how soon a fetus can be born and survive outside of its mother's womb. Fetal viability is typically set at 23 weeks of gestation but varies depending on certain factors.

An ultrasound machine sits in a room where at Whole Womans Health of South Bend on Oct. 29, 2021. The fall of Roe v. Wade on June 24 marked the start of a strange era to be a Maternal-Fetal Medicine ...

House Speaker Jon Patterson delivers his opening day speech Wednesday to the Missouri House (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications). The day he was sworn in as speaker of the Missouri House, Jon ...