Three laws in Montana limiting abortion are unconstitutional, a state judge ruled Thursday, according to the Daily Montanan.
The laws ban abortion after 20 weeks and by way of telehealth services, as well as require a 24-hour waiting period and two ultrasounds. District Court Judge Kurt Krueger sided with Planned Parenthood of Montana, which filed the lawsuit and argued that the government shouldn’t be able to “infringe” on bodily autonomy any more than it can force someone to have an abortion, the Daily Montanan reported.
“Notably, Armstrong rejected the state’s attempts to regulate abortion, not on the basis that the procedure should be protected per se, but because a woman’s right to ‘decide up to the point of fetal viability, what her pregnancy demands’ implicates her right to ‘procreative autonomy,’” Krueger wrote, referring to…
