Billings Gazette
By Zach Benoit

At a Saturday convention in Billings, state representatives and members of the Montana ProLife Coalition voiced their support for a proposed amendment to the Montana constitution that could end in-state abortions by defining human life as beginning with the fertilization of an egg.

The event, called the Billings Personhood Convention and held at the Mount Olive Lutheran Church, was organized in part to gather signatures in support of Constitutional Initiative 102, called CI-102. The state requires the signatures of about 49,000 registered Montana voters to get the proposal onto the November 2010 ballot.