The Montana Supreme Court on Monday rewrote the ballot language describing a proposed initiative to amend the state’s constitution to expressly protect a right to abortion.
Neither the descriptive language proposed by Attorney General Austin Knudsen (R) nor that proposed by proponents of the initiative adequately informed voters of its contents, the court ruled.
The new court-written language clearly says the initiative would amend the Montana Constitution to “expressly provide a right to make and carry out decisions about one’s own pregnancy, including the right to abortion.”
Montana is one of 14 states in which abortion initiatives could be on ...
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