Montana Adds Abortion Protection To US Election Ballot

Montana on Tuesday became the latest US state to add abortion rights to the November ballot, allowing its electorate to decide whether they back a constitutional change to protect access to the procedure.

Abortion rights have become a key electoral issue and a rallying cry for Democrats since the nationwide right to the procedure was struck down by the conservative-dominated US Supreme Court in 2022.

The Montana initiative, if passed, “would prohibit the government from denying or burdening the right to abortion before fetal viability,” Montana’s Secretary of State’s office said on its website.

The state’s government would also not be allowed to deny or impede access to an abortion in cases where a medical professional indicates the pregnancy poses a threat to a mother’s life.