Letters to the editor July 7

Women’s rights

Petition gatherers in Montana have recently submitted over 117,000 signatures to put reproductive freedom (choice) on the ballot in November. Yay! That is a great step toward protecting our reproductive rights and privacy.

We should not have to do this, but out current reproductive freedoms hang on a 1999 Montana Supreme Court decision, the Armstrong case. If the Montana Supreme Court changes in makeup, we could end up being like Florida and Texas. The risk of going back in time is too great.