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Planned Parenthood of Montana plans new Bozeman clinic, expanding abortion services. Planned Parenthood of Montana plans to open its first Bozeman clinic, expanding access to abortion and other sexual and reproductive health care in the area. Planned Parenthood has not released the exact location of the future Bozeman clinic. Fuller said the site is close to Montana State University and located on a public transit line. By: Meghan Elaine Posted 4:01 PM, Sep 09, 2026 and last updated 1 hour and 58 minutes ago Planned Parenthood of Montana plans to open a new health center in Bozeman, bringing in-person abortion services to the city as the organization expands its presence in the state. The organization announced the plans Tuesday. WATCH: Planned Parenthood is coming to Bozeman. Here's what Krtv Communication Inc. know. "Even as one of the fastest-growing and youngest cities in Montana, there was no consistent provision of abortion care," Planned Parenthood of Montana President and CEO Martha Fuller said during a Zoom interview. The Bozeman location will be Planned Parenthood of Montana's fifth clinic in the state. Its other health centers are in Billings, Missoula, Helena and Great Falls. Fuller said about 1,400 patients from the Gallatin Valley are already receiving care through Planned Parenthood's other health centers and telehealth services. "We see about 1,400 patients from the Gallatin Valley at our other health centers and through telehealth, so we know we have patients who are in the area already," Fuller said. Fuller said the organization also sees the Bozeman clinic as a way to serve patients from Montana and the broader Mountain West. "So really making sure that we are doing everything that we can both for people in our state and folks in the broader Mountain Intermountain West and beyond to be able to get care and have that infrastructure is really important to us," Fuller said. Planned Parenthood of Montana has provided health care in the state for nearly 60 years. Fuller said its services extend beyond abortion care, including sexual and reproductive health services. "We see people all the way up through perimenopause and menopause, just a full gamut of sexual and reproductive health care," Fuller said. Montana abortion rights. Fuller also pointed to Montana's Constitutional Initiative 128, which voters approved in 2024. CI-128 amended the Montana Constitution to expressly provide a right to make and carry out decisions about one's own pregnancy, including the right to abortion. The amendment also addresses abortion before fetal viability and when a health care professional determines an abortion is medically necessary to protect the pregnant patient's life or health. "Here in Montana, the vast majority of folks believe that it is important that people be able to make decisions about their own pregnancies. They support the right to have an abortion. We saw that when they passed a constitutional amendment two years ago," Fuller said. Location and construction. Planned Parenthood has not released the exact location of the future Bozeman clinic. Fuller said the site is close to Montana State University and located on a public transit line. "We want to be open in a timely manner, and so it's really important to us that the folks who are doing the work inside the space have the ability to do that work, unobstructed, unbothered, and be able to get that done," Fuller said. Construction is already underway. Fuller said Planned Parenthood of Montana has raised about $1.5 million toward a $2 million fundraising goal for the clinic construction. The organization is also seeking an additional $1.5 million to cover its first-year operating costs. "We welcome folks to get in touch about the fundraising campaign and how they can be involved too," Fuller said. The clinic is slated to open in summer 2027.

Planned Parenthood of Montana to open new clinic in Bozeman. Planned Parenthood of Montana has a new location currently undergoing construction in the Bozeman area. BOZEMAN, Mont. - A new Planned Parenthood health center is coming to the Bozeman area for the first time, Planned Parenthood of Montana announced Tuesday morning. Construction is underway to renovate a building for the space's new intended purpose. Part of the goal with this new location is to help people in Bozeman receive reproductive healthcare closer to home instead of traveling to other cities, said Martha Fuller, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Montana. The organization has four existing health centers in Missoula, Helena, Great Falls and Billings, and as many as 1,500 people from the Gallatin County area travel to one of those centers every year for care, Fuller said. People from out-of-state also frequently fly to Bozeman to then travel to one of those clinics, she added. "We really want it to be a place that's welcoming to the broader community and can really feel like a home for sexual and reproductive health care without judgment, with compassion, but in a setting that everybody deserves to get their care in," Fuller said. The new clinic is expected to offer the same services available at other Planned Parenthood of Montana locations, including STI testing and treatment, birth control, annual exams, cancer screening, gender affirming care and both medicated and procedural abortion. Bridgercare, another reproductive healthcare clinic in Bozeman, has been a long-time partner of PPMT, Fuller explained. However, Bridgercare is a Title X clinic, which means they receive federal funding to provide care to low-income or uninsured patients, and therefore do not provide abortions. The new Planned Parenthood clinic is not a Title X clinic, which means they likely will not provide services through a sliding fee scale. Fuller explained the different clinics that provide different types of care act like a net. "If you've got lots of overlap and things are woven together tightly, it's very strong and helps catch things better," she said. "So, those partnerships with other providers around the state are really important to making that net super strong, and our commitment is to continue to offer the care that others might not be able to offer." Not everyone in Bozeman is on board with the idea of Planned Parenthood opening a new location. The Montana State University Chapter of Turning Point US took to Facebook when the chapter learned the news. They wrote in part, "Being pro-life means standing for the fundamental right to life. It means recognizing the humanity and value of the unborn. And it means supporting women with real resources so that no mother feels abortion is her only option." The TPUSA provided information for other resources in the Bozeman area, such as ZoeCare and LoveLine. Fuller said during the silent part of PPMT's campaign to fundraise for the new location, they received an incredible amount of support. "Here in the state of Montana, we are very supportive of access to sexual and reproductive health care, including abortion. The passage of the constitutional amendment two years ago, I think, was a, you know, resounding demonstration of the fact that people actually do support other Montanans' right to access abortion care," she said. Construction is underway for the new clinic, although Fuller said they are not announcing its exact location yet. She cited concerns over ensuring contractors can work without people showing up to bother them. The location will, however, be centrally located in Bozeman and accessible by public transit, she added. The clinic is expected to open in early summer of 2027.