A 10-year-old girl who was raped and impregnated by a man in Ohio was denied an abortion in that state after the US Supreme Court ruled last week that it overturned Roe v. Wade, demonstrating the tangible impacts that the high court’s decision is having on patients seeking access to the medical procedure.

A 28-year-old Helena man has been charged with multiple felony offenses including repeatedly raping a child younger than 13. David Allen Caves is charged with seven felony counts of sexual intercourse without consent, felony strangulation of partner or family member, felony assault with a weapon, felony sexual abuse of children, and his first misdemeanor partner or family member assault offense.

A 21-year-old man who coerced a 14-year-old girl into a sexual relationship in 2021 was sentenced for felony crimes in Gallatin County on Tuesday. Oliver Owens Temple, 21, pleaded guilty to felony sexual intercourse without consent. The plea was not part of an agreement. Gallatin County District Court Judge Andrew Breuner sentenced Temple on Tuesday to an eight-year commitment in the Montana Department of Corrections. Five years will be suspended.

The Bozeman March for Reproductive Rights partnered with the Bozeman United Way will hold protests every Friday evening at 7 pm at the Gallatin County Courthouse starting Friday, July 8. The group held a march on the Fourth of July with attendees carrying signs with phrases like “My body, my choice” and “I will not go quietly back to the 1950s.” The marches are growing in numbers following the US Supreme Courts’ decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and take away a woman’s right to abortion.