Conservative Group's Challenge to Abortion Rights Tossed by Judge
Pardy said Montana rules do not require the full initiative text on the ballot and found no factual basis for the challenge.
- Yellowstone County District Judge Thomas Pardy ruled against Rep. Amy Regier and the Montana Life Defense Fund, rejecting their challenge to the ballot language of Constitutional Initiative 128, the state's abortion protection amendment.
- Challenging the ballot language, the fund argued the amendment was invalid because the full text was not printed on the ballot, a claim the Montana Supreme Court had previously dismissed.
- The judge noted that the Montana Constitution does not require the full text on the ballot, reasoning that if the framers had intended such a requirement, they would have stated it.
- Montanans approved the measure in November 2024 with 345,070 votes in favor and 252,300 opposed, a result Akilah Deernose, executive director of the ACLU of Montana, says this ruling helps uphold.
- It remains unclear whether Regier and the fund will appeal Pardy's decision to the state's highest court, though this marks the third time courts have dismissed such challenges to the abortion protection law.
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Court affirms Montana’s Constitutional amendment to protect abortion
For the third time in a row, a conservative group along with a Republican legislator have had their challenge to the state’s abortion protection law, now enshrined in the Montana Constitution, shot down by a court. This decision was the…
Conservative group's challenge to abortion rights tossed by judge
MISSOULA — The latest attempt from a prominent conservative group to undo abortion protections stamped into the Montana Constitution by a majority of voters was tossed aside this week by a Yellowstone County District Court judge.
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Protestors outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 1, 2021 as the high court considered a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks (Photo by Jane Norman for the Daily Montanan).For the third time in a row, a conservative group along with a Republican legislator have had their challenge to the state’s abortion protection law, now enshrined in the Montana Constitution, shot down by a court. This decision was the first by a district court, a…
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