The University of Missouri Health Care system will discontinue a type of clinical privilege that allowed a Planned Parenthood doctor to perform medication abortions at a Columbia, Mo., clinic.

The move, effective Dec. 1, would end the availability of abortions at the clinic. Planned Parenthood officials expressed outrage at the decision.

“This is a continuation of the orchestrated attempt to restrict access to safe, legal abortion in Missouri and to the critical services Planned Parenthood has provided for nearly 100 years,” Laura McQuade, CEO of the Planned Parenthood affiliate for mid-Missouri and Kansas, said in a news release.

Under state statute, a doctor can perform or induce an abortion only if the doctor has clinical privileges at a hospital, which offers obstetrical or gynecological care located within 30 miles of the location where the abortion is being performed.

Planned Parenthood wouldn’t comment on whether the university’s decision meant the Columbia clinic will end abortions in December or if the organization could take other actions to keep the medical procedure available.

The Columbia clinic had resumed medication abortions last month after a physician got certain clinical privileges, known as “refer and follow,” at the Mizzou hospital. The clinic had stopped the procedure in 2012 after its physician left.

In a news release, the university said it decided to discontinue the category of “refer and follow” privilege, which takes effect in December.

The university described this type of privilege as “outdated and unnecessary,” adding that only two physicians in its system had this privilege.

The university had launched a review of the clinical privileges after inquiries from legislators and the public, Mizzou said. From there, Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin asked faculty and staff to review and make recommendations to the privileges in place.

The move comes on the heels of the university’s decision last week to also cut long-standing ties with multiple affiliates of Planned Parenthood where students could also gain clinical hours.

These decisions come after intense scrutiny into Planned Parenthood by state lawmakers. Legislators launched investigations into Planned Parenthood after videos surfaced alleging the medical provider was selling fetal body parts. Planned Parenthood has vehemently denied those allegations. A separate investigation was launched when Planned Parenthood in Columbia said it was resuming abortion procedures.

Sam Lee, president of anti-abortion group Campaign Life Missouri, was happy to hear of the news Thursday evening.

“I’m very pleasantly surprised that the university has decided to sever ties with an abortion doctor,” he said. Now he hopes that without the clinical privileges, the state will revoke the facility’s license to perform abortions.

In medication abortions, pills are typically used to end a pregnancy up to nine weeks of pregnancy.

St. Louis’ Planned Parenthood is the only facility in the state to perform surgical abortions.