evidence: After Roe v. Wade was overturned in June, state elected officials voiced their support for the rightward, religiously conservative shift of the Supreme Court. Montana’s Republican governor, Greg Gianforte, called the reversal a "historic win for life," and began a push for the state’s Supreme Court to revisit the ruling that protected aspects of the privacy clause. In 2021, one state lawmaker even called Montana’s Constitution a "socialist rag" that "we need to throw out." [...] Women and children land at Safe Space for a number of reasons. There’s a shortage of affordable places to live: Montanans have seen the cost of housing jump statewide, and in Butte, the median home price increased from $159,000 in 2020 to almost $300,000 just three years later. There’s the statewide fentanyl, methamphetamine and opioid epidemic: In October, Gov. Gianforte declared a crisis in Butte-Silver Bow, which, from 2011 to 2020, had a higher per capita rate of opioid-related deaths than Montana’s other populous counties. That crisis can have particularly devastating consequences for women.