Lori Lamprich, volunteer driver with Midwest Access Coalition, drives her car from St. Louis, Missouri, over the state border to Illinois, on June 25, 2022. Lamprich drives abortion seekers across the Mississippi River to Illinois, where abortion remains legal.
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Following President Joe Biden’s Friday executive order protecting abortion rights, a Planned Parenthood of Montana spokesperson tells Truthout the organization will not reverse its decision to discontinue providing medication abortion to patients traveling from states where abortion has been banned after the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade.

The organization, which operates five clinics in the state, had previously cited legal concerns about patients potentially traveling with abortion pills provided by Planned Parenthood of Montana clinics back home to states that have banned abortion, and then taking the pills there. The organization, however, is continuing to provide such patients with surgical abortion procedures (since they can guarantee the procedure happens in state).

While the safe and effective two-pill regimen may be given at a clinic in a state that has not banned abortions, like Montana, the patient […]

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