page_title: Abortion in Montana
section_title: Clinic history
hierarchical_section_title: Abortion in Montana / History / Clinic history
caption_attribution_description: English: Number of abortion clinics in Montana by year. Data is from articles linked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LauraHale/Template:Abortion_by_US_state
context_page_description: Abortion in Montana is legal. 56% of adults said in a poll by the Pew Research Center that abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
  The number of abortion clinics in Montana has fluctuated over the years, with twenty in 1982, twelve in 1992, eight providers of which seven were clinics in 2011, five clinics in 2014. There were four clinics from 2015 to February 2018 when All Families Healthcare clinic in Whitefish re-opened. There were 1,690 legal abortions in 2014, and 1,611 in 2015.
context_section_description: Between 1982 and 1992, the number of abortion clinics in the state decreased by eight, going from twenty in 1982 to twelve in 1992. All Families Healthcare opened in 1994.
  In 2011, there were 8 abortion providers in the state, of which seven were classified as abortion clinics. In 2014, there were five abortion clinics in the state. 93% of the counties in the state did not have an abortion clinic. That year, 55% of women in the state aged 15 – 44 lived in a county without an abortion clinic. In March 2016, there were 5 Planned Parenthood clinics in the state. All Families Healthcare  was destroyed in 2014 after Zachary Klundt destroyed it while searching for prescription drugs.
  In 2017, there were five Planned Parenthood clinics in a state with a population of 215,806 women aged 15 – 49 of which four offered abortion services. In 2018, the closest abortion clinics to Flathead Valley were in Missoula, Great Falls, Helena or Billings.  These were all over 100 miles away, requiring women to travel great distances to have an abortion.  All Families Healthcare clinic in Whitefish closed for four years in early 2015, before reopening in February 2018.
caption: Number of abortion clinics in Montana by year.
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