Groups Challenge Montana’s New Pregnancy Rights Amendment

Montana Voters Have Spoken About Abortion

In 2024, Montana voters voted to make the right to an abortion a part of the Montana Constitution when they voted for CI-128. Ballotpedia reports that 57.76% of Montanans voted for the initiative and 42.24% voted against the initiative.

What Is Montana Constitutional Amendment 128?

From Ballotpedia:

The ballot initiative provided that "there is a right to make and carry out decisions about one’s own pregnancy, including the right to abortion." The government may regulate abortion after fetal viability, except in cases "to protect the life or health of the pregnant patient." This right cannot be denied or burdened unless justified by a compelling government interest achieved by the least restrictive means. A compelling interest means a government interest to address a medically acknowledged health risk to the mother and does not infringe on the patient's own decision making.

The amendment prohibited the government from penalizing, prosecuting, or taking any adverse action against a person based on their pregnancy outcomes nor against any person who aids or assists another person in obtaining an abortion.

There Are Groups Actively Trying To Overturn Our Votes In Montana

Isn't that how it always goes anymore? One side doesn't get their way so they try any slimy-sneaky-low-down-dirty-trick they can think of to impose their will on others and force their way of life and thinking.

The groups trying to over turn the will of Montanans are The Montana Life Defense Fund and the Montana Family Foundation. (I was going to provide links to these 2 groups, but I thought that might help them out too much. To learn more about them you will have to copy and paste yourself. I can't be a part of forcing ones beliefs on another.)

Basically what the groups are saying is that CI-128 is illegal because the entirety of the text wasn't written on the ballot. Just like every single amendment passed since 1978. There is a 2 year statute of limitations, so the group jumped on it.

Montana is a place that is live and let live. Either do that or go. Nobody wants your nosey self here.

Sources: Montana Legislature, Daily Montanan, Ballotpedia