State right to privacy is paramount in Montana
Montana Kaimin By Laura Lundquist Meddling busybodies are back, sneaking around behind the scenes and trying to abort Montana’s constitutional right to privacy. Last weekend, a national anti-choice group slithered into three Montana cities, including Missoula, to launch a petition drive with the covert intention of stopping abortions. In order to do that, the Virginia-based American Life League wants Montanans to rewrite our constitution. The proposed Constitutional Initiative 102 would define “person” as starting “from the beginning of the biological development of that human being” — basically anything with one or more human cells. If this group has its way, the due process clause that says “no person should be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law” would apply to an egg the minute it is pierced by the head of a sperm, even if it sits in a test tube. Such an amendment would introduce hypocrisy into the constitution. While tweaking “person” in the right to due process, the anti-choice groups ignored the right to individual privacy, which “shall not be infringed upon …” Read the entire article |
