Montana – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

19 Nov

Judge’s ruling temporarily frees Montana abortion clinics from new licensing requirements

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Abortion clinics in Montana won’t be subject to new licensing requirements — ones their lawyers said could shut them down — at least for the time being. Last week, a Lewis and Clark County District Court judge said the licensing requirements imposed by House Bill 937 from the 2023 Montana Legislature are likely to violate patients’ rights to equal protection.

07 Nov

Abortion-rights ballot measures pass in 7 states, fail in 3 others

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"Constitutional amendments to protect or expand abortion rights passed in seven of the 10 states where they appeared on the ballot Tuesday, NBC News projects. Voters in Arizona and Missouri approved ballot initiatives that will effectively protect abortion rights until fetal viability and undo existing abortion laws on the books. But voters in Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota rejected proposed amendments that would have done the same — becoming the first pro-abortion-rights ballot measures to fail since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022. Meanwhile, voters in Maryland, Montana, Nevada and New York (where abortion is already legal through fetal viability) and in Colorado (where there are…

02 Sep

Abortion ballot organizer says Montanans should not take reproductive rights for granted

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The year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Montana’s Republican-majority legislature passed an array of bills restricting abortion. Though these laws were blocked by courts and abortion until fetal viability remains the law in Montana, reproductive rights activists say they no longer feel confident that their state constitution’s right to privacy will always protect their rights while pregnant. Now Montana joins nine other states who this November will vote on whether to explicitly protect the right to terminate a pregnancy in their state’s constitution. Last week the secretary of state’s office approved and certified Constitutional Initiative 128,…

11 Aug

Commentary: Threats to family planning loom large in Montana, U.S.

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Recently, the U.S. House of Representatives proposed a party line, federal funding bill that would completely eliminate funding for Title X, our nation’s only program dedicated solely to providing affordable, family planning services. To put it bluntly, they want to defund a program that provides contraception to people who want contraception but can’t afford contraception. This doesn’t make sense.

10 Mar

Supreme Court hears abortion arguments

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The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in a case about whether minors must receive parental consent for an abortion. This case is revisiting a fraught legal question that Montana voters, lawmakers and residents have grappled with for more than a decade.

22 Dec

Advocates propose amending Montana Constitution to guarantee abortion rights

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"If advocates are successful, Montana voters may have a chance next year to decide whether access to abortion should be specifically protected in the state constitution. A proposed constitutional amendment, backed by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Montana, would add language to the Montana Constitution, establishing “a right to make and carry out decisions about one’s own pregnancy, including the right to abortion.”..."

10 Aug

Montana voters rejected an anti-abortion measure. State GOP lawmakers passed a similar bill anyway.

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"In the months following the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision that gave states the power to ban abortion, voters in a half-dozen states spoke on the issue — and, in every case, chose to uphold abortion rights or reject an attempt to restrict them. Most recently, Ohio voters on Tuesday rejected a Republican-led effort to make it more difficult to change that state’s constitution, which would have set a higher bar for an abortion rights ballot initiative this fall. But the will of the electorate didn’t stop Republican lawmakers in one state, Montana, from passing a version of the anti-abortion proposal that voters…

24 May

Montana judge blocks abortion restrictions from taking effect while lawsuits continue

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"A district court judge in Helena has blocked a series of new state abortion restrictions from taking effect while lawsuits challenging their constitutionality move forward...."

09 May

Abortion providers sue FDA over abortion pill restrictions in Virginia, Montana, Kansas

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A group of abortion providers, including two clinics in Charlottesville and Alexandria, are suing the Food and Drug Administration in an effort to block potential new restrictions on the use of the abortion pill mifepristone in Virginia, Montana and Kansas.

06 May

Judge temporarily blocks new abortion law banning procedures after 24 weeks [Montana]

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"A Helena judge on Thursday temporarily blocked a new state law banning abortions after 24 weeks in Montana..."

20 Apr

Pending abortion ban can’t be prevented, Montana judge rules

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"A bill to restrict abortions in Montana will become law — at least temporarily — if the governor signs it, a judge ruled. Monday’s ruling denies a request by abortion rights advocates to preemptively block legislation that would ban the abortion method most commonly used in the second trimester..."