Regardless, legislators with their own personal agendas seek instead to start changing and eroding our basic protections. Make no mistake, if this strategy works and abortion is excluded from the right to privacy, this will not be the last constitutional amendment. Legislators will introduce measures to amend away our state protections from search and seizure and unwarranted intrusion into our bedrooms, and our right to a clean and healthful environment, our right to dignity and our right to know will not be far behind. Our constitution is far too important to be cynically amended to reflect the values of only a small but vocal minority. Freedom means that others have the right to make their own decisions with which one may disagree.
Freedom is messy.
Freedom is uncomfortable. And lastly, as we have learned from attack after attack to our freedom, freedom is expensive. Protect your freedom. Please contact your state legislators and tell them what you value most about our precious constitution. Click here to return to the ACLU of Montana 2000 by the American Civil Liberties Union of Montana All Rights Preserved.