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For anti-abortion activists in Montana, next steps are unclear
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Overturn of Roe shifts Montana abortion debates to state courts
Montana Republicans want to limit abortion access. It won’t be easy.
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Abortion privacy bill clears major vote on Senate floor
Dozens testify against new rules for Medicaid-eligible abortions
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Health dept. proposes new requirements for Medicaid abortion coverage
If adopted, the new regulation would require pre-authorization to seek Medicaid coverage for abortion, requiring providers to submit a long list of information about their client’s medical history. The rule would also allow only physicians to bill for Medicaid coverage, not other medical practitioners currently providing abortions in the state.
Montana Supreme Court considers whether advanced practice nurses can provide abortions
The Montana Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in Weems v. State, a case that will decide whether advanced practice registered nurses can legally provide abortions in Montana, or whether the Legislature has broad authority to regulate a nurse’s scope of practice currently overseen by a professional medical board.
What does Montana’s ‘born-alive’ referendum have to do with abortion?
When voters review their ballots in November, the only mention of abortion they see will be in the eye-catching language of LR-131, a referendum on the Montana Born-Alive Infant Protection Act. But the measure’s actual link to abortion, according to medical professionals organizing against the referendum, is divorced from medical fact.
A Montana abortion provider surveys a landscape of political threats
As Montana ends up an island of abortion access in the northern Rockies, Whitefish abortion provider Helen Weems is warily watching the political forces that, amid gains for their cause, would celebrate the closure of her clinic.
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