done, we know you're making our license contingent on this as a clinic and you want to shut us down but we're not going to make our patients go through this unnecessary, uncomfortable, inhumane thing just because you say so. how will the state respond? nobody knew. on friday, something unexpected happened which is that the state basically said, well, okay then. they basically said, all right. on friday, the republican-led state health department in missouri took back its new rule that all women in missouri must get a second unnecessary pelvic exam before they're allowed to have an an abortion three days in advance. they reversed course. they changed their mind. the health director in missouri, a man named randall williams, he, himself, is a doctor. he is actually an ob-gyn. oh. he is the one who decided that women had to get this second pelvic exam in the first place. on friday he talked to reporters about why he changed his mind. he said, "in looking at what they're doing and the fact that they think it causes a burden