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Property group calls off initiative
A group has decided not to pursue a constitutional “takings” ballot measure after all but instead will bring it up at the Legislature.
National ‘Personhood’ Backers Barnstorm Montana With One Big Exception
Three major players in the absolutist anti-choice movement headed to Big Sky Country last weekend to push a second attempt at a state ballot measure to ban abortion without exception. But the confab is also as noteworthy for the obvious absence of a prominent group in the egg-as-a-person campaign.
LA Times Examines Anti Choice Groups’ Push For ‘Personhood’ Ballot Measures
Abortion-rights opponents are escalating their efforts to place so-called “personhood” measures on several state ballots in 2010 as a way to end legalized abortion, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Personhood law’s petitioning starts
Anti reproductive freedom activists launched a petition drive in Billings on Friday to give legal rights to fertilized embryos.
Petitions out for MT Personhood Amendment
The anti reproductive freedom personhood amendment petitions are now available to the public for signing in Montana.
Initiative to ban trapping in Montana clears first hurdle en route to ballot
An initiative to ban trapping on public land in Montana has cleared its first hurdle toward appearing on the November 2010 ballot.
ASUM passes resolution favoring women’s rights
Some students were forced to share chairs at Wednesday’s ASUM meeting, so great was the opposition to a possible state ballot initiative that would legally define personhood as beginning at conception.
Montana Anti-Abortion Petition Approved
Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock approved a proposed ballot measure that aims to constitutionally define fertilized eggs as people in the state.
Montana AG Approves Language of Personhood Bill
The Montana Attorney General has approved the language of a proposed constitutional amendment that would define a fetus as a “person” from the moment of conception.
Montana AG approves language for abortion restriction initiative
Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock has approved language for a proposed ballot measure aimed at restricting abortions.
