Personhood law’s petitioning starts
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Billings Gazette: Anti-abortion activists launched a petition drive in Billings on Friday to give legal rights to fertilized embryos. The personhood amendment would change Montana's definition to include fertilized embryos, which would be protected against destruction in all cases. Amendment sponsor Montana Prolife Coalition has until next June 18 to gather the 48,673 signatures necessary to put the issue on the November 2010 ballot. The Montana petition is part of state-by-state effort to undo the 1973 precedent set by Roe v. Wade, in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that a mother may abort her pregnancy for any reason up until "the point at which the fetus becomes viable." Viable was defined as the fetus' ability to live outside the womb.
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