Montana Abortion Control Act

The act governs the performance of abortion, setting the conditions under which the procedure may lawfully be provided and defining the circumstances in which it is prohibited. Its core mechanism is an informed-consent framework — required printed and referral information, disclosure and notification duties before the procedure, posted notice at facilities, and parental consent or judicial authorization where the patient is an unmarried minor — backed by a civil action for damages when an abortion is performed without informed consent. It further bars specified categories of abortion, including sex-selective abortions, abortions sought because of a genetic abnormality, dismemberment procedures, and abortions after a detectable heartbeat in an unborn child or beyond a defined postfertilization age, while imposing reporting, recordkeeping, patient-privacy, born-alive protection, and humane fetal-remains disposal duties enforced through criminal penalties.

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