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Blue Mountain Clinic unveils stained‑glass window, highlights fundraising and plans to expand services amid threats to abortion access
Summary
At a Missoula event, Blue Mountain Clinic leaders unveiled a donated stained‑glass window meant to shield patients and staff from protesters, announced a $450,000 matching campaign (about $272,634 raised so far), and outlined hiring and telehealth plans to bolster care amid ongoing state‑level restrictions.
Tess Fields, executive director of Blue Mountain Clinic, told a crowd in Missoula that the clinic — founded in 1977 and rebuilt after a 1993 bombing — must both preserve its legacy and deepen services as state policies restrict abortion access across the country.
Fields opened the evening by recounting the clinic’s origins and the role its founders played in early legal fights over abortion, and she said the facility remains a crucial access point for patients across the Rocky Mountain region. “The entire building is fireproof, bombproof, and bulletproof,” she said, invoking the clinic’s history of threats and the need to protect patients and staff.
The clinic’s leaders used the gala to announce operational and fundraising milestones. Fields said Blue Mountain has hired a…
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