Planned Parenthood of Montana

Planned Parenthood of Montana has reversed course on its decision to stop offering medication abortions to patients living in states that have banned abortion.

Doctors in states where abortion is or could be banned say more patients are seeking permanent sterilization procedures, but some patients say providers are unwilling to operate on people of childbearing age.

Just hours after President Joe Biden issued an executive order aiming to protect access to abortion nationwide, a longtime Montana state lawmaker participated in a roundtable discussion on abortion access with Vice President Kamala Harris.

The four states bordering Montana have “trigger laws” in effect or pending now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ended federal protections for abortion, making conservative Big Sky Country an unlikely haven for women seeking to end their pregnancies. But Montana’s potential to become an abortion refuge has been diminished by the operator of three of the state’s five clinics, which are preemptively limiting who can receive abortion pills.

Planned Parenthood of Montana has stopped offering medication abortion services to out-of-state residents, according to a statement released this week.

The leak of a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion which calls for overturning federal protections for abortion drew swift reaction. Here's how such a decision could play out in Montana and what elected leaders are saying about it.

A Bozeman nonprofit clinic will take over administering federal funds for family planning health care services in Montana. The clinic beat out the state health department in a competitive application process.

In states where courts have ruled that their constitutions’ explicit privacy rights extend to the right of a woman to have an abortion, the procedure would continue to be legal even if the Supreme Court’s 1973 ruling is overturned, legal scholars and abortion-rights advocates said.

A decades-old lawsuit challenging two Montana laws requiring parental consent and notification for minors seeking abortions will head back to court Monday.

A Yellowstone County District Court judge late last week temporarily blocked three new laws that restrict access to abortion just hours before they were set to go into effect. Montana Public Radio's Shaylee Ragar talked with Montana Free Press's Mara Silvers and the Montana State News Bureau's Holly Michels about what happened and what's still up in the air.