{"id":307940,"date":"2024-03-04T12:42:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T18:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=307940"},"modified":"2024-03-03T22:23:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T04:23:08","slug":"montana-judge-ends-preborn-protections-five-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/montana-judge-ends-preborn-protections-five-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana judge quashes pro-life laws, including preborn protections after five months"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Montana judge has struck down three laws protecting preborn children in the state, including a law restricting abortion to the first 20 weeks of pregnancy.<\/p>\n

In his ruling, District Court Judge Kurt Krueger struck down<\/a> House Bill 136, which restricts abortions past 20 weeks, House Bill 171, which covers several provisions including a 24-hour waiting period for chemical abortions and a ban on telehealth abortions, and House Bill 140, which would have required doctors to offer an ultrasound before an abortion. All three laws were passed by lawmakers in 2021 and subsequently blocked by a preliminary injunction imposed in October 2021. With Kreuger’s ruling, the injunction against the laws becomes permanent.<\/p>\n

In his ruling, Krueger maintained<\/a> that a 1999 Montana Supreme Court ruling established a woman’s right to obtain a pre-viability abortion. In striking down each of the three laws, he said the restrictions had no basis in medical science and they infringed on a woman’s constitutional “right” to abortion. He decried commonsense safety measures, like making sure a woman sees a doctor in person before receiving the abortion pill. Live Action News has detailed some of the risks of the ‘no test’ abortion pill protocol in this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201c[House Bill 171] violates the right to privacy by imposing numerous and severe burdens on patients and providers, which lack a basis in demonstrable medical science and do not apply to any other medical treatment,\u201d he wrote<\/a>. \u201cThe state produced no discovery showing the risks of telehealth administered medication abortion versus in-person. Moreover, the state admits that Montana law does not expressly authorize or prohibit telehealth for any other medical provider.\u201d<\/p>\n