Montana has lengthy been related to large skies, open areas, freedoms, and liberties. Ryan Zinke, nonetheless, has a special imaginative and prescient for Montana — a harmful one which denies half one million Montana ladies the freedom and autonomy to manage their very own our bodies.
We all know our Montana ladies to be an indication of power and independence. We climb mountains, row rapids, increase herds, and bail hay. We need to be handled equally to the boys we work alongside, and that features the liberty to make choices on our personal reproductive well being. The primary lady elected to Congress was a powerful, Montana lady herself, that relentlessly stood up for girls’s rights, and is to thank for our protections within the first place.
Zinke’s shameful voting document is an assault on ladies’s rights, well being care, and reproductive freedom. He’s repeatedly voted in opposition to abortion companies, in favor of defunding household planning organizations that present preventative care and most cancers screenings, and has been endorsed by anti-choice teams. A girl’s medical choices are her personal to make, not a politician’s.
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Montana is already going through an endemic of abuse and violence in opposition to Indigenous ladies. Stripping the reproductive freedoms of Indigenous ladies and blocking entry to protected and authorized abortions will solely perpetuate home violence in opposition to each moms and youngsters, derailing academic and career-focused pursuits and putting a better monetary burden on the shoulders of struggling moms.
Montana is the one refuge left for reproductive freedom within the Rocky Mountain West, and it’s as much as us to vote in leaders that can shield the rights of all Montanans.
A Californian, Zinke doesn’t symbolize Montanans, and definitely not Montana ladies. The one alternative for girls’s rights and our freedoms this election is Monica Tranel.