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 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 for patients to do the pelvic exam twice, as a clinician who practiced for 30 years, i'm sensitive to that." he's sensitive to that. it took state health director randall williams more than three weeks to develop a sensitivity to that. to doctors practically shouting themselves hoarse about how the new vaginal probe mandate might be hurting his patients.