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BOZEMAN, Montana (LifeSiteNews) – A Montana abortionist, whose presence in her town was described as an “open secret,” will close her facility that conducted chemical abortions due to the political climate in the state.

Claire Putnam told the Bozeman Daily Chronicle that she “has been the only doctor in Bozeman who performs elective abortions since she opened her private practice, SHE Health and Wellness, in 2018. She plans to close the clinic soon.”

Putnam called herself a “hesitant abortion provider.”

“I would love to not do any elective abortions. Often I have talked people out of abortions,” she told the newspaper. Despite her stated desire to “not do any elective abortions,” she has helped women kill their babies for four years now in Bozeman.

“Putnam describes herself as a pro-life abortion provider — a ‘purple person’ who doesn’t easily fit into a political mold. Her favorite part of her job is helping women and couples bring healthy babies into the world,” the local newspaper wrote of the abortionist.

The reversal of Roe v. Wade also led to her decision to stop aborting babies.

“She is closing her private practice in part because of financial pressures. But she has felt differently about her work as an OB-GYN since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that guaranteed abortion as a right,” the paper reported.

“I’m also afraid. That’s part of why I’m closing,” Putnam told the Daily Chronicle. “Doctors are threatened for what they do. It’s kind of a threatening time.”

The state’s highest court found an expansive right to abortion in 1999, relying on Roe v. Wade. Montana has a blocked 20-week abortion ban. Conservatives could upend the Montana Supreme Court’s pro-abortion majority by flipping a seat on the court in November.

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte, a Republican, recently urged the state supreme court reconsider pro-life laws.

“The Montana Constitution and the Constitutional Convention that adopted it left that policy question to the legislature, where it resided during Montana’s status as a territory and since statehood,” Gianforte wrote on August 2. “With the overturning of Roe, which formed a basis for the Armstrong decision, this Court must honor such context.”

LifeSiteNews has a comprehensive, regularly updated map of state-by-state abortion laws. Indiana became the most recent state to restrict abortion, passing a law which is expected to prevent 95 percent of abortions.

 

 

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