--- title: Missouri: Planned Parenthood Handled Fetal Tissue Properly description: Attorney General Chris Koster's office says there was "no evidence" of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region mishandling fetal tissue. canonical: https://time.com/4054688/missouri-planned-parenthood-fetal-tissue/ author: Tanya Basu article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-29T20:16:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:22:18.462Z article:section: Health og:title: Missouri Finds No Evidence Planned Parenthood Clinic Illegally Handled Fetal Tissue og:description: The state's attorney general released a 47-page review that found "no evidence" og:url: https://time.com/4054688/missouri-planned-parenthood-fetal-tissue/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5334c4f7ce87536a/6988661df887dc9acee92a26/cecile_richards-planned-parenthood.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015, prior to testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on "Planned Parenthood's Taxpaye og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Missouri Finds No Evidence Planned Parenthood Clinic Illegally Handled Fetal Tissue twitter:description: The state's attorney general released a 47-page review that found "no evidence" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5334c4f7ce87536a/6988661df887dc9acee92a26/cecile_richards-planned-parenthood.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Missouri Finds No Evidence Planned Parenthood Clinic Illegally Handled Fetal Tissue > Sponsored content. 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Jacquelyn Martin—AP  by [Tanya Basu](https://time.com/author/tanya-basu/)  ## Tanya Basu Sep 29, 2015 8:16 PM UTC The Missouri attorney general’s office has found [no evidence](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/us/planned-parenthood-fetal-tissue-missouri.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&%5Fr=1) that a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis illegally handled fetal tissue. Chris Koster, Missouri’s attorney general, and his office released a [47-page report](http://ago.mo.gov/docs/default-source/press-releases/2015/plannedparenthood09-15.pdf) on Monday, one day before Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, [testified in Congress on Tuesday](http://time.com/4053715/planned-parenthood-video-cecile-richards-congress/?xid=homepage). The New York _Times_ reports Koster’s office reviewed 3,500 pages of documents and conducted interviews, covering 317 surgical abortions in June, a month before a string of videos from the Center for Medical Progress, an anti-abortion group, incited controversy about how Planned Parenthood handled fetal tissue. “As a result of our investigation, the Office of the Missouri Attorney General has found no evidence that \[Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region\] has engaged in unlawful disposal of fetal organs and tissue,” the report read. The St. Louis Planned Parenthood is the organization’s only location in Missouri that is authorized to perform surgical abortions. \[[_New York Times_](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/us/planned-parenthood-fetal-tissue-missouri.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&%5Fr=1)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4054688/missouri-planned-parenthood-fetal-tissue/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4054688/missouri-planned-parenthood-fetal-tissue/"},"headline":"Missouri Finds No Evidence Planned Parenthood Clinic Illegally Handled Fetal Tissue","datePublished":"2015-09-29T20:16:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:22:18.462Z","description":"Missouri's attorney general analyzed data from 317 abortions in June, before controversial videos came out in July.","url":"https://time.com/4054688/missouri-planned-parenthood-fetal-tissue/","keywords":["abortion","reproductive rights","Public Health","attorney general","Planned Parenthood","St Louis"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5334c4f7ce87536a/6988661df887dc9acee92a26/cecile_richards-planned-parenthood.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tanya Basu","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tanya-basu/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5334c4f7ce87536a/6988661df887dc9acee92a26/cecile_richards-planned-parenthood.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015, prior to testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on \"Planned Parenthood's Taxpaye","caption":"Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015, prior to testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on \"Planned Parenthood's Taxpaye","creditText":"Jacquelyn Martin—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4054688/missouri-planned-parenthood-fetal-tissue/","name":"Missouri Finds No Evidence Planned Parenthood Clinic Illegally Handled Fetal Tissue"}}]}] ```