Some University of Missouri students are expressing frustration with the campus chancellor after a Columbia Planned Parenthood clinic stopped performing abortions.
Mizzou for Planned Parenthood organizer Dina van der Zalm said a Wednesday meeting with interim Chancellor Hank Foley to talk about how the school could help the clinic was canceled.
Laura McQuade, the President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, said they received a call Tuesday night informing them that interim Chancellor Foley had no time for the Wednesday meeting.
McQuade said it's "too early to tell" what the relationship between MU's new administration and Planned Parenthood will look like, but Planned Parenthood hopes to repair the relationship between the clinic in Columbia and the University of Missouri.
"Our hope is to get back to the positive, collaborative, cooperative relationship we've always had with the University," McQuade said.
And she added that this has begun - with three nursing students working with Planned Parenthood clinics during the upcoming spring semester and the contract with the School of Social Work remaining intact.
University spokesman Christian Basi said no meeting with Foley was scheduled, University representatives have met with the group, and the school is open to talking.
The students' frustration comes as a Planned Parenthood doctor faces losing privileges with MU Health Care Tuesday. Without physician privileges, the Columbia clinic will lose its license to provide abortions.
Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri said it likely will take legal action if it doesn't have a physician with privileges.
