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NARAL Pro-Choice Montana, the state's largest grassroots organization dedicated solely to reproductive rights, has been working to protect choice in Montana for more than 30 years. Learn more about the latest challenges to choice and our pro-choice victories. Find out how you can get educated, engaged and mobilized to defend a woman's right to choose before a small group of anti-choice politicians in Helena take our rights away!
Your Pro-Choice Resources:
- NARAL Pro-Choice Montana
- NARAL Pro-Choice Montana Foundation
- Montana NARAL Choice PAC
- Montana and Choice
- Need Help? Reproductive Options
- Pro-Choice Montana Photos
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NARAL Pro-Choice Montana's mission is to develop and sustain a constituency that uses the political process to guarantee everywoman the right to make personal decisions regarding the full range of reproductive choices, including preventing unintended pregnancy, bearing healthy children, and choosing legal abortion.
Our vision for Montana communities--communities in which every pregnancy
is wanted, every child welcomed, every woman respected--is as strong as our
determination to build them from the grassroots up.
CI-100 Defeated!!
Victory! Friday, June 20 was the deadline for the backers of CI-100 to present enough signatures to qualify the amendment for the ballot, and they did not succeed!
Thanks to supporters like you, more than 350 activists volunteered at polling places around the state to stop CI-100! These volunteers of all ages and backgrounds handed out educational materials and talked with thousands of voters about the dangers of signing the petition in support of CI-100. Here in Helena, I talked with everyone—including teens from Capitol High’s Feminist Club and women who were around pre-Roe v. Wade. I also fielded calls from voters all over the state asking how they could get involved in our campaign.
CI-100 would have put women’s lives and health at risk. It would have allowed politicians not women, their families, or their doctors to decide what’s best for Montana women. And it could have outlawed not only abortion, but birth control, stem-cell research, and in-vitro fertilization, too.
Montanans sent a message: A dangerous and divisive amendment like CI-100 has no place in our state.
This victory is a stark reminder of what dedicated individuals can do working together for the same goal—ensuring reproductive freedom and privacy.
We must look forward to November, where 45 anti-choice legislators who supported a bill identical to CI-100 are running for reelection. These candidates are out of touch with Montana values, and we’ll need your help to get the word out (and the pro-choice vote.) If you aren’t already signed up to volunteer with us, please take a moment to do so.
We are the only grassroots organization in Montana dedicated solely to protecting your reproductive rights and freedoms and building a statewide movement of Montanans who will stand up these values.
I hope that you will join us,
Sincerely,
Allyson Hagen
Executive Director
NARAL Pro-Choice Montana
THANK YOU to all 25 members of Montanans for Safe and Healthy Families:
AAUW Montana (American Association of University Women)
ACLU of Montana (American Civil Liberties Union)
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
BPW of Montana (Business and Professional Women)
Blue Mountain Clinic
Bridger Clinic Inc.
Democratic Women’s Caucus
Forward Montana
homeWORD (Women’s Opportunity and Resource Development)
Montana Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence
Montana Human Rights Network
Montana League of Women Voters
Montana Section of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Montana Women For
Montana Women’s Lobby
Montana Women Vote
NARAL Pro-Choice Montana
Northwest Women’s Law Center
Planned Parenthood of Montana
Progressive Clergy for Choice
Students for Choice (University of Montana, MSU, MSU-Billings)
National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association
WEEL (Working for Equality and Economic Liberation)
Women’s Voices for the Earth
YWCA-Missoula
Internship Opportunities with NARAL!
Intern this summer! We are still accepting applications.
NARAL Pro-Choice Montana hires interns year round! Application due dates vary depending on when you would like to intern with our organization.
Positions we have available each semester are;
- Development Intern - in Helena
- Grassroots Organizer and Sex Education Project Intern - in Helena
- Students for Choice Campus Organizing Intern - on your campus!
If you are interested or would like more information on a specific internship opportunity please send a resume and cover letter to Lisa at mtnaral@mt.net
2007 Legislative Session: Scorecard Released
We are proud to announce the release of the 2007 Legislative Voting Record on Choice. This scorecard allows you to hold your elected officials accountable for the votes they took at the 2007 Session. Find out how your legislators voted on issues of privacy, reproducitve rights and access to reproductive healthcare.
Attorney General McGrath Rules Insurance Companies Must Cover Contraception
In a victory for women's health, Montana Attorney General Mike McGrath release a welcome opinion stating that insurance companies must include birth control in their prescription drug coverage. Not doing so is in violation of Montana's unisex insurance law and Human Rights Act and constitutes sex discrimiation. NARAL Pro-Choice Montana worked with state Senate President Jon Tester (D-Big Sandy) in November to request the opinion.
To read more about the opinion, click here.
2008 Elections
Find out what presidential candidates are saying about reproductive rights. Check out NARAL Pro-Choice America's webiste.
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