“I don’t see where it would be a conflict,” Prewitt said. “It doesn’t violate the judicial rules, so I don’t see how it would violate any commissioner rules either.”

Parson spokesman Steele Shippy said the governor named Prewitt to the commission based on his experience as a judge and his past military service and that his stance on abortion was not a factor.

The four commissioners work independently, and cases are assigned on a rotating basis.

Dr. Colleen McNicholas, an obstetrician-gynecologist at the St. Louis clinic, said in a statement Monday that the “terrifying reality is that access is hanging on by a thread with a narrowing timeline. The truth is, if the Administrative Hearing Commission does not act by Friday, abortion access in the state of Missouri will be gone. This creates uncertainty for the patients we serve.”

A health department spokeswoman declined to comment Monday.

Planned Parenthood had not appealed to the AHC as of 5 p.m. Monday, records show.

If the commission sides with the state, Missouri could become the first U.S. state without an abortion clinic since the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 established a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy.