abortion

The Montana Senate has advanced four bills that would restrict access to abortion in the state.

Senate Bill 329, the Montana Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, was heard before the Montana House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday morning.

The Supreme Court challenge to a Texas law that has dramatically reduced the number of abortion clinics in the state is the justices' most significant case on the hot-button issue in nearly a quarter-century.

A Montana woman who is suing her medical providers for failing to diagnose her unborn daughter's cystic fibrosis testified that she did not read all the information a nurse gave her about the disease.

The divide between Republicans and Democrats over abortion is deeper than ever.

The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will hear a challenge to key parts of Texas' 2013 abortion law that pro-abortion rights groups say is one of the strictest in the nation. NBC Montana says the court has not heard a major abortion case since 2007, and its decision will likely come down sometime next spring or early summer in the heat of the presidential campaign...

The issue of abortion came up at the U.S. Senate today, September 24, where proponents of a bill titled “The Pain Capable Child Protection Act,” sought to limit abortions in the United States to only those pregnancies within 20 weeks of conception.

The Montana House has endorsed a bill that would require health insurance companies to offer coverage plans that do not include elective abortions.

Republicans have muscled legislation through the House tightening federal restrictions on abortions, as thousands of abortion foes staged their annual protest march just down the street.

The anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Row v Wade decision is January 22, and the pro-life organization Concerned Women of America will be hosting an event in the Capitol rotunda in Helena on Friday, January 23.