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Montana lawmakers are considering about a half-dozen bills that would restrict abortion services. Some business leaders say that could make Montana a less attractive place for employees, but Speaker of the House Matt Regier says the bills won’t impact business.
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Twenty high-growth companies, representing hundreds of jobs and average wages close to $100,000, have signed a statement urging lawmakers not to pass legislation that would interfere with access to reproductive healthcare.
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Republican lawmakers in Montana wield a supermajority that gives them the power to ask voters to approve a constitutional amendment that would break the link between abortion rights and the right to privacy in the state’s constitution. But so far, they haven’t sought to ask voters to make the change.
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An ordinance before the Manhattan, Montana, town council sought to allow residents to sue those who receive abortion pills by mail.
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A move to make Manhattan a “sanctuary for the unborn” seeks to criminalize receiving abortion pills by mail.
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Anti-abortion advocates are pressing for expanded abortion bans and tighter restrictions since the Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion. But with the debate mostly deadlocked in Washington, the focus is shifting to states convening their first full legislative sessions since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
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Montana officials are looking to tighten rules around medically necessary abortions for those who use Medicaid as their health insurance. Reproductive health advocates and Democratic lawmakers have said the move is part of a broader agenda to whittle away access to the procedure.
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A Republican lawmaker is seeking to add a caveat to the state’s constitutional right to privacy. The language would say that the right does not protect access to abortion.
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Montana lawmakers said lowering costs and expanding patient access will be their top health care goals for the new legislative session.
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The state’s high court previously considered the case in 2019, after a district court temporarily allowed Helen Weems, a nurse practitioner and the owner of All Families Healthcare in Whitefish, to provide abortions while the case proceeded.