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Right to Abortion Initiative
HOPED FOR BALLOT: NOVEMBER 5. 2024
See Ballotpedia page for more information and updates.
Current status: Filed November 22, 2023. On January 16, 2024, the Montana Attorney General determined the initiative to be legally insufficient. On March 19, 2024, the Montana Supreme Court over-ruled and gathering signatures can start. Due date: June 21, 2024.
We regard a “no” vote as helpful to the goal of ending violence.
This is one of several trying to establish a state constitutional right to abortion, so that the legislature couldn’t move to do further restrictions.
Abortion isn’t Freedom for Women
Setting aside the violence (and therefore lack of equal protection) done to unborn children, a point which proponents of this measure steadfastly ignore, the rhetoric they use about women also steadfastly ignores harm done. Here are some of the Consistent Life Network’s blog posts that explain this. They can offer good ideas for opponents of this measure to use in their work:
Abortion and Violence Against Pregnant Women
How Abortion is Useful for Rape Culture
The Message of “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”: Abortion Gets Sexual Predators Off the Hook
Abortion Facilitates Sex Abuse: Documentation
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