Ballot Initiative Watch
Anti-choice Activists Back with Constitutional Amendment CI-102 The attorney general has approved the language of a proposed change to the constitution aimed at banning abortions and interfering in the privacy rights of Montana women. On Wednesday, July 1, the Montana Pro-Life Coalition launched a campaign to eliminate the right for Montana women and families to make private medical decisions regarding reproductive health care. This dangerous measure would establish legal rights starting at fertilization with the intent of banning legal abortion in our state and threatening stem-cell research, in-vitro fertilization, and birth control.  In 2008, anti-choice groups fell nearly 20,000 signatures short of the signatures necessary to put this measure on the ballot. The amendment also failed at the 2007 and 2009 Legislative Sessions.
Anti-choice activists will have until June 2010 to collect nearly 49,000 signatures in order to place the amendment on the November 2010 ballot. Unfortunately, we are not the only state. Anti-Choice activities have similar efforts in 30 states as they attempt to outlaw abortion and reproductive rights. | 
