The Daily Montanan

2 days ago | dailymontanan.com | Keila Szpaller

When Jim Armstrong was an intern at Queens General Hospital in New York City decades ago, he saw women die every day from self-induced or illegal abortions, recalled Susan Cahill, a retired physician assistant and founder of the original All Families Healthcare in the Flathead Valley. That was before the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion protecting abortion based on privacy in Roe vs. Wade in 1973.

3 days ago | dailymontanan.com | Keila Szpaller

17:26 News Story Abortion Policy June 24 is the third anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade Although abortion remains generally legal in Montana, people on the frontlines in the Treasure State said work on the ground has changed since the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In the 2022 Dobbs opinion, the nation’s highest court overturned Roe vs. Wade, which protected the right to abortion based on medical privacy.

4 days ago | dailymontanan.com | Keila Szpaller

17:54 News Story Abortion PolicyGovernment & Politics Supporters of measure to protect abortion vow to continue the fight The State of Montana deprived voters, especially those who registered on Election Day, of the ability to fully evaluate the language of Constitutional Initiative 128 — to protect abortion in the state Constitution — according to a recent lawsuit.

4 days ago | dailymontanan.com | Darrell Ehrlick

17:15 News Story Civil RightsGovernment & PoliticsJustice Missoula County District Court judge said Senate Bill 99, which prohibited gender-affirming care, violated three sections of the Montana Constitution Attorneys who successfully challenged a bill passed by the 2023 Legislature which would have banned minors from receiving gender-affirming medical care in Montana, have asked a district court judge to award more than $1.4 million in attorneys fees and costs related to the case.

6 days ago | dailymontanan.com | Keila Szpaller

U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy, a former U.S. Navy Seal and Montana’s junior senator, praised the Trump administration’s announcement Saturday it had bombed three nuclear sites in Iran. “The right decision,” said Sheehy, a Republican from Bozeman, in a social media post. “Iran had every opportunity to give up their nukes. To the naysayers out there, this isn’t starting a war, this is ending one. Iran has been at war with America for 46 years.