ASUM passes resolution favoring women’s rights
Montana Kaimin By Jayme Fraser Some students were forced to share chairs at Wednesday’s ASUM meeting, so great was the opposition to a possible state ballot initiative that would legally define personhood as beginning at conception. More than two dozen students representing Students for Choice, Planned Parenthood of Montana, the Women’s Resource Center, and College Democrats stood to show their support of an ASUM resolution opposing the initiative. None of the students present opposed the resolution, which ASUM passed later that night. “It’s really important we protect reproductive rights,” said Amanda Zimmel, a junior majoring in sociology. She attended the meeting to represent College Democrats. Read the entire article |
