Montanans for Choice announced Monday it is launching a campaign on “reproductive freedom as a Montana value” with a series of billboards and digital ads.
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill Thursday immediately allowing Arizona doctors to travel to the Golden State and perform abortions for their patients, for most of the remaining year.
A poll conducted by a Montana research firm found that more than half of Montana residents blame the governor and the state Legislature for the spike in property taxes over the last year.
After two weeks of thwarted attempts, the Arizona House of Representatives voted Wednesday to repeal a near-total abortion ban from 1864, with three Republican lawmakers breaking from their party to join Democrats in striking it down.
Montana Republicans have supported laws restricting abortion access in Montana and are staunchly opposed to the proposal, which would enshrine broad abortion protections in the state constitution.
The group behind a ballot petition to enshrine abortion access in Montana’s constitution formally kicked off its signature gathering campaign this week.
For the second time in as many weeks, Arizona Republicans refused to strike down a near-total abortion ban from 1864, using a procedural move to block a Democratic effort to repeal the law.
Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen sent the group behind a proposed abortion access constitutional amendment its ballot petition ahead of Friday’s court-imposed deadline so the group can start collecting signatures.