Some good news in my feminist mailbox today:
Montana Anti-Abortion Ballot Initiative Fails
"A proposed ballot initiative to amend the Montana state constitution to define a fertilized egg as a person failed to qualify for the state's 2008 November ballot. Supporters of the initiative failed to gather even half of the required 44,000 signatures required to qualify the measure...."
I am very fond of Montana - my dad grew up on a farm outside of Missoula, we spent summers there when I was growing up, I went to college there, and my parents retired there - and I have kept one eye on the state over the last few years as it has shown signs of moving from red to blue. They have a democratic governor, a new democratic senator in organic farmer Jon Tester (who helped give the democrats their slight majority in the senate in 2006). And this most recent sign - not having enough support to allow an oppressive godbag amendment get on the ballot! My dad said Montana used to be a hard-core Democratic state a few decades ago when the mining industry was really strong and unions had a big presence. It will be interesting to see what shade of red Montana ends up being after November.
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