SB154 clarifies that the right of individual privacy, as referenced in the Constitution or laws of Montana, “does not create, and may not be construed as creating or recognizing, a right to abortion or to governmental funding of abortion.”
The Senate passed SB154 on January 26, 2023, by a vote of 28 to 21. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because Montana should act to ban abortion and secure the right to life for all persons. The right to life is the most fundamental, God-given, and unalienable right asserted in the Declaration of Independence and guaranteed by the 5th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.