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(Reuters) -Montana's highest court on Wednesday ruled that a law requiring minors to get parental consent when seeking an abortion violated the state's constitution, upholding a legal challenge by ...
The Montana Supreme Court struck down the Parental Consent for Abortion Act in 2024, ruling it violates a minor’s fundamental right to privacy under the state constitution by conditioning access ...
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that minors don’t need their parents’ permission to get an abortion in the state – agreeing with a lower court ruling that ...
The Supreme Court of the United States' decision in 1973's Roe v. Wade ruling meant the state could no longer regulate abortion in the first trimester. [9] However, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, No. 19-1392, 597 U.S. ___ (2022) later in 2022. [10] [11]
Montana’s measure seeks to enshrine a 1999 Montana Supreme Court ruling that said the constitutional right to privacy protects the right to a pre-viability abortion by a provider of the patient ...
Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen sent MSRR its ballot petition on April 5, 2024, a day after the Montana Supreme Court ordered her to do so. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] MSRR began collecting signatures for Initiative 128 in April 2024, [ 19 ] and submitted about 117,000 signatures for the ballot initiative on June 21, 2024.
The 2022 Montana Legislative Referendum 131, commonly known as the Born-Alive referendum, [1] was a legislatively-referred state statute in the state of Montana, which was voted on alongside the 2022 elections in the state. The statute, which sought to define certain infants as "born alive" – including following abortions – and compel ...
Supporters appealed his opinions to the Montana Supreme Court and petition language was approved. The justices ended up writing the petition language for the abortion initiative themselves.