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Re Abortion laws: Surprised to see Montana stand alone in a sea of red states w/out a trigger law?
Jennifer Palmieri
@jmpalmieri
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2h
Surprised to see Montana stand alone in a sea of red states w/out a trigger law?
It’s bc MT has a right to privacy in its constitution. 50 yrs ago MT League of Women Voters led a successful effort to call for a Constitution Conv & right was enshrined there.
Impt lesson…🧵
It was 1972. BEFORE Roe. There were 100 delegates at MT Conv, 19 were women. Following footsteps of Montana’s Jeanette Rankin - who nearly 50 years prior had fought for suffrage & was first woman in history elected to Congress - women in MT pushed for & secured new rights. 🧵
Right to privacy, right to a healthy environment were enshrined in MT’s Constitution. (This is why MT is able to protect & guarantee access to public lands, streams).
Fifty years later, Republicans in power in MT are trying to overturn the privacy right in the Constitution🧵
LESSON FOR TODAY IS…don’t discount power of people banning together to fight for rights.
The women in MT who willed the Constitutional Conv into being had no power - but they came together & secured rights that stand today.
What we all do in the moment matters. Engage.
@jmpalmieri
·
2h
Surprised to see Montana stand alone in a sea of red states w/out a trigger law?
It’s bc MT has a right to privacy in its constitution. 50 yrs ago MT League of Women Voters led a successful effort to call for a Constitution Conv & right was enshrined there.
Impt lesson…🧵
It was 1972. BEFORE Roe. There were 100 delegates at MT Conv, 19 were women. Following footsteps of Montana’s Jeanette Rankin - who nearly 50 years prior had fought for suffrage & was first woman in history elected to Congress - women in MT pushed for & secured new rights. 🧵
Right to privacy, right to a healthy environment were enshrined in MT’s Constitution. (This is why MT is able to protect & guarantee access to public lands, streams).
Fifty years later, Republicans in power in MT are trying to overturn the privacy right in the Constitution🧵
LESSON FOR TODAY IS…don’t discount power of people banning together to fight for rights.
The women in MT who willed the Constitutional Conv into being had no power - but they came together & secured rights that stand today.
What we all do in the moment matters. Engage.
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