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Missoula advocates urge opposition to House Bill 365 banning intact D&E procedure
Summary
Speakers at a Missoula community conversation warned that House Bill 365 would criminalize a rare late‑term abortion procedure, impose heavy penalties on providers and lack a health exception; advocates urged testimony at a Helena hearing.
Missoula advocates urged local residents to oppose House Bill 365, a proposed state ban on an intact dilation-and-evacuation procedure commonly referred to in advocacy discussion as a late‑term abortion procedure. Gail Gucci, board president of Montana NARAL, told the meeting that HB 365 “is incorrectly named” and that the bill would ban a procedure used rarely and “only used in extreme and tragic cases where the life and health of the mother is at risk and or there are severe fetal anomalies.”
Advocates said the bill would make the procedure a criminal act…
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