On the latest ballot was Legislative Referendum No. 131 (LR-131), which would have required that medical personnel try to help the babies who survive abortions stay alive. Lianna Karlin, president of Right to Life of Montana, says prior cases of failed abortions were the motivation for the referendum.
"The way it was dealt with was they would drop them into a bucket of water, or they would move them to a cold room and let them die, and they had no right to life," Karlin relays. "The nurses, some of them were so sickened by it that they immediately left the abortion industry."
The fact that LR-131 failed to pass was a shock to many Montana residents, because it is a pro-life state.
"Whether we oppose abortion based on religious conviction or on scientific fact, we believe that life begins at conception and that all human life has infinite, intrinsic value, and therefore, it deserves to be protected and nurtured," Karlin tells AFN.
Because science shows that life begins at conception, Right to Life of Montana now plans to pursue a constitutional amendment that will protect human life the instant it begins.
