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The decision cited a 1999 Montana Supreme Court ruling that said the state Constitution's right to privacy includes a woman's right to abortion access.
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A Lewis and Clark County District Court judge has granted a temporary block on a 24 week abortion ban signed into law by the governor Wednesday.
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Gov. Greg Gianforte has signed five anti-abortion bills into law, and plans to sign several more. Planned Parenthood of Montana has asked a judge to block two of them immediately.
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Since the U.S. Supreme Court reversed federal protections for abortions, medical providers in conservative-led states have been fighting legal and political battles — as well as escalating threats from the anti-abortion movement.
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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.
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Since Native American tribes are sovereign nations, with their own laws, could they offer abortion services on Native land within states that may soon outlaw abortion? And would they?
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Delegates to Montana’s 1972 Constitutional Convention, and several progressive legal organizations have filed briefs in support of a lawsuit challenging new state laws restricting access to abortion.
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The former president of Planned Parenthood nationwide joined U.S. Senator Jon Tester in Bozeman, Thursday afternoon, to continue the Democrat’s effort to…