abortion

Pueblo City Council members voted Tuesday night to kill a proposed city ordinance that would have banned abortion access in the city, saving itself from an almost certain legal fight with the state.

The Montana Supreme Court said Wednesday a lower court didn’t abuse its discretion in temporarily stopping bills that restrict abortion procedures and ones that restrict access to abortion by patients who use Medicaid.

Two Montana abortion clinics are asking a state district court to block new licensing requirements for clinics issued by the Department of Public Health and Human Services last month.

Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs decision, voters in ten states will be considering ballot measures on abortion this fall – including Montana.

Susan Cahill writes, "The ability to make decisions for ourselves and our life keep getting more difficult. Not a single Republican candidate in Montana and at the national level will stand up and vote to protect women’s choice."

Roger Koopman writes, "This precedent-setting monstrosity has become the top priority of the abortion industry and the abortion-infatuated Democrat Party."

The ruling strikes down a so-called trigger ban passed in 2007 that took effect when the U.S. Supreme Court effectively nullified Roe v. Wade in 2022.

Roger Koopman writes, "It is the ideology of the Left that is dedicated to expanding the size, power and coercive influence of government in our lives – the extreme opposite of personal freedom. The ideology of take whatever you want from others and call it a 'right.'”

After a legal challenge that stretched out for over a decade, the Montana Supreme Court has invalidated a state law that would have required parental consent before a minor could get an abortion.

Proposed regulations would require clinics providing abortions in the state to meet sweeping new health standards, despite a likely vote in November on a constitutional amendment to protect abortion access.