Reproductive Justice

Montanans for Safe and Healthy Families: No on CI-100

Visit: http://www.noci100.org/

MHRN is working with a broad-based coalition called Montanans for Safe and Healthy Families to oppose CI-100. The members include Montanans who work on issues of: women’s health, civil rights, constitutional rights, and economic justice. The coalition works to protect the ability for women and providers to make personal decisions andpreserving Montana’s values and Constitutional freedoms.

CI-100, sponsored by Rep. Rick Jore and his extreme Constitution Party of Montana, would amend the state’s constitution to declare life begins at conception and a fertilized egg has a “paramount and fundamental right to life. It is part of the right-wing’s overall campaign to limit reproductive freedom by infringing on the rights recognized in Roe v. Wade. Along with trying to ban abortion, the measure has many other horrible outcomes. Jore has admitted the amendment would result in women being investigated, and possibly prosecuted, for experiencing a miscarriage. The amendment also establishes a constitutional basis to ban certain methods of birth control, stem cell research and in vitro fertilization.

To learn more about Rick Jore and his Constitution Party of Montana, check out the Network's comprehensive report here.

How You Can Help

Montana Reproductive Rights Coalition

The Montana Human Rights Network is active in the Montana Reproductive Rights Coalition. The Coalition both identifies the threats to reproductive rights and provides the resources to articulate the values of the pro-choice vision. The coalition works to galvanize Montanans around a pro-choice agenda and, by continuing to expand and solidify our relationships, we will strengthen our grassroots base and prepare growing numbers of individuals to take action to protect reproductive rights in all of its complexities.

Montana Reproductive Rights Coalition Members:
· ACLU Montana
· Blue Mountain Clinic
· WEEL (Working for Equality and Economic Liberation)
· Montana Human Rights Network
· Montana Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence
· Women's Voices for the Earth
· AAUW
· Montana State Business and Professional Women
· Montana League of Women Voters
· Planned Parenthood of Montana

Reproductive Rights and Human Rights

Reproductive Justice is part of the human rights movement because reproductive justice exists when all people have the social, political, and economic power and resources to make healthy decisions about our gender, bodies, and sexuality for ourselves, our families, and our communities.

Check out this recent Mother Jones article by Eveline Shen, Director of Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice, on the topic.

Reproductive Justice: Commentary: How pro-choice activists can work to build a comprehensive movement