Measure on the ballot in the 2022 Montana General Election in Montana.
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Get StartedAn Act adopting the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act; providing that infants born alive, including infants born alive after an abortion, are legal persons; requiring health care providers to take necessary actions to preserve the life of a born-alive infant; providing a penalty; providing that the proposed act be submitted to the qualified electors of Montana; and providing an effective date.
A "yes" vote favors adopting the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, punishing health care providers found guilty of failing to take medically appropriate and reasonable actions to preserve a born-alive infant's life with a fine of up to $50,000 or imprisonment for up to 20 years, or both.
A "no" vote opposes adopting the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, punishing health care providers found guilty of failing to take medically appropriate and reasonable actions to preserve a born-alive infant's life with a fine of up to $50,000 or imprisonment for up to 20 years, or both.
"Resuscitative measures are painful, they're invasive, they prevent bonding, they prevent time with the mother and baby, they prevent religious ceremonies, they prevent a lot of things that parents need to move in the next steps of grieving and healing from infant loss. It's just very concerning that there would be a legislative action to regulate that and the language in the bill does not specify any of the things that we just talked about." - Dr. Alison Rentz, pediatrician and neonatologist at St. Vincent Healthcare, in opposition to Legislative Referendum No. 131 (Learn more)
"Montana is finally on track to become the 24th state to stop gruesome late-term abortions after five months, a point by which unborn babies feel pain inside the womb. Former Governor Steve Bullock, a pro-abortion extremist, previously vetoed this legislation and a commonsense measure to ensure babies born-alive after failed abortions are given proper medical care and attention." - Sue Liebel, State Policy Director for Susan B. Anthony List, in support of Legislative Referendum No. 131 (Learn more)
"It's a simple bill of are we going to protect infants that are born alive for any reason, not just a botched abortion, but any infant that's born alive. Do they deserve that same medical services that you and I are afforded, what's medically appropriate and reasonable?" - State Rep. Matt Regier, in support of Legislative Referendum No. 131 (Learn more)
"It's just part of the propaganda and false narrative surrounding abortion, of 'botched abortions' that result in live birth. It just is not — that's not something that happens." - Dr. Timothy Mitchell, a maternal-fetal medicine physician in Missoula, in opposition to Legislative Referendum No. 131 (Learn more)
This Act legally protects born-alive infants by imposing criminal penalties on health care providers who do not act to preserve the life of such infants, including infants born during an attempted abortion. A born-alive infant is entitled to medically appropriate care and treatment. A health care provider shall take medically appropriate and reasonable actions to preserve the life and health of a born-alive infant. A born-alive infant means an infant who breathes, has a beating heart, or has definite movement of voluntary muscles, after the complete expulsion or extraction from the mother. A health care provider found guilty of failing to take medically appropriate and reasonable actions to preserve a born-alive infant's life under this Act faces punishment of a fine up to $50,000 or imprisonment up to 20 years, or both.
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