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All Families Healthcare is fortunate enough to have been featured in a number of articles by publications such as Montana Free Press, The Washington Post, the Whitefish Pilot, the Flathead Beacon, and others since our start in 2018. As the landscape of abortion care changes on a state and federal level, we are grateful for the coverage of our work and the wider audience it allows us to reach.

Inside a Rare Abortion Clinic in Montana

Grace Segers from the New Republic takes a look into the state of abortion access in Montana through a visit to All Families Healthcare and an interview with Helen Weems. As a large state with only five abortion clinics, surrounded by states where abortion is illegal, Montana is a haven…

Montana abortion clinics challenge law regulating their facilities

On Friday, September 1st, a lawsuit was filed by the ACLU of Montana, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and law firm Dechert, LLP, on behalf of All Families Healthcare, Blue Mountain Clinic, and Helen Weems, APRN-FNP. The lawsuit is targeting House Bill 937, sponsored by Rep. Lola Sheldon-Gallowy, R-Great Falls,…

The Problem With Planned Parenthood

This article discusses the dynamics between Planned Parenthood and independent abortion clinics like All Families Healthcare in Montana and other states across the country. By Eyal Press for the New Yorker. 5/8/2023. Read here

Montana District Court Blocks Several Unconstitutional Abortion Restrictions

On Tuesday, May 23rd, a Montana District Court judge granted abortion providers’ request for a preliminary injunction to block several restrictions on abortion access. The restrictions blocked include a rule that would effectively eliminate abortion access for most Medicaid patients in the state and a law that would prohibit the…

Montana Supreme Court upholds ruling that allows some nurses to provide abortions

This article covers the court case, Weems V State, that allows for advanced practiced registered nurses to continue provide abortions legally within the state of Montana, including All Families’ Helen Weems, who served as a plantiff. The case asked for a law that prohibited APRNs from practicing abortions to be…

Healthcare Providers File Federal Lawsuit to Expand Abortion Pill Access

Abortion providers in Montana, Kansas, and Virginia filed a lawsuit aimed at preserving access to the widely used abortion pill mifepristone. The providers, which include All Families Healthcare and our practitioner Helen Weems, sued the FDA on in federal court to force the agency to drop several longstanding restrictions on…

Judge halts new Montana Medicaid abortion rule from going into effect

A Montana judge issued a temporary restraining order against the state from enacting a rule that adds more restrictions to Medicaid patients who seek an abortion in Montana. The lawsuit challenging the new rule says that bill is effectively a ban on abortion, and that many of the facets of…

How abortion providers in Montana remain open despite political attacks

This piece that played on NPR briefly covers the changing landscape of abortion care in Montana and its storied past, featuring All Families’ current owner and director, Helen Weems, and its owner from its prior iteration in Kalispell, Susan Cahill. The accompanying written article, “Abortion clinics in Conservative-led states face…

New Medicaid Proposal Would Limit Abortion Access

A proposed Montana Department of Health and Human Services amendment would add barriers to abortion access for low-income Medicaid recipients – creating higher costs for the state and putting clinics at financial risk. By Maggie Dresser for The Flathead Beacon. 1/26/2023. Read Here

Montana justices weigh if some nurses can provide abortions

Advanced practice registered nurses in Montana should be allowed to provide abortions based on a state Supreme Court ruling that guarantees residents the right to get a legal abortion from a health care provider of the patient’s choice, an attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights argued Wednesday. By Amy…

A Montana abortion provider surveys a landscape of political threats

As Montana finds itself an island of abortion access in the northern Rockies, Whitefish abortion provider Helen Weems is warily watching the political forces that, amid gains for their cause, would celebrate the closure of her clinic. By Mara Silvers for Montana Free Press. 9/22/2022. read here

Local Abortion Providers Shift into New Reality

Abortion providers in Northwest Montana say their patients are scared, panicked and confused as they prepare for nationwide access restrictions following the Supreme Court draft leak that would overturn Roe v. Wade. By Maggie Dresser for The Flathead Beacon. 6/9/2022. read here

Best Family Practice and Best Nurse – All Families Healthcare

All Families Healthcare won Best Family practice and Helen Weems won Best Nurse in the the Whitefish Pilot’s Best of Whitefish 2022. The paper briefly profiled Helen on what prompted her to start All Families and what it means to her, and the clinic, to be recognized in such a…

Battle Over Access

Having elected its first anti-abortion governor in 16 years, Montana has joined other states in passing laws to restrict abortion access while courts decide if they violate the Constitution. By Maggie Dresser for the Flathead Beacon. 11/17/2021. read here

Montana Supreme Court Rules in Abortion Provider Case

The Montana Supreme Court upheld a ruling that allows a nurse practitioner and a nurse midwife to provide abortions while they challenge a state law. By Associated Press for the Flathead Beacon. 4/29/2019. read here

A New Chapter for All Families Healthcare 

Nearly four years after Kalispell clinic’s destruction, family practice opens in Whitefish to offer primary and reproductive care, including abortions. By Tristan Scott for the Flathead Beacon. 1/30/2018. read here