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A state judge has temporarily blocked new restrictive abortion policies from going into effect while their constitutionality can be hashed out in court. Montana Public Radio’s Shaylee Ragar was in the courtroom and joined Austin Amestoy to break down what happened.
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Restrictions on abortion passed by the Montana Legislature have again been temporarily blocked in court
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Gov. Greg Gianforte on Tuesday signed four new laws restricting access to abortion.
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Montana’s three abortion providers are suing the state over a new rule that restricts Medicaid coverage of abortion.
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A district court judge in Helena says a bill to ban the most common abortion procedure used after 15 weeks of pregnancy cannot be blocked before it becomes law. If signed, it has an immediate effective date.
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Planned Parenthood of Montana has reversed course on its decision to stop offering medication abortions to patients living in states that have banned abortion.
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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.
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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.
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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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Planned Parenthood of Montana has stopped offering medication abortion services to out-of-state residents, according to a statement released this week.