National health leaders return to St. Louis a year later to reflect on a post-Roe v. Wade country...

On the eve of the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, federal public officials and local health care providers returned to St. Louis reflecting on the ways that decision has changed America in the past year.

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-St. Louis County, and representatives from Planned Parenthood of St. Louis and other clinics that provide abortions in Illinois gathered in the same conference room where they first learned of the Dobbs decision.

“I remember vividly that moment as we were wrapping up our roundtable and the room got incredibly quiet. Everybody started looking down at their phones, and we knew that the worst-case scenario had become our new reality,” said Yamelsie Rodríguez, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri.