Montana Certifies Signatures for November Abortion Question

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : And in Arizona -- which, like Montana, was facing a Thursday deadline to certify its ballots -- the state's Supreme Court rejected an appeal late Tuesday from anti-abortion groups trying to strike a similar measure that the secretary of state there had approved last week.
50% : Abortion remains legal in Montana until viability -- the point when a fetus can survive outside the uterus, generally around 24 weeks of pregnancy -- because of a 1999 state Supreme Court decision that said the right to privacy in the state Constitution included a right to "procreative autonomy.

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