While Democrats look to abortion rights as a way to incite liberal voters to the polls and win swing states, voters in Montana will not likely swing the state to Joe Biden, but thanks to pro-choice advocates in the state, Montana voters will decide whether Montanans’ abortion rights in a ballot measure in November, NBC News reports.
Planned Parenthood of Montana, leading a group called Montanans Securing Reproductive Rights, collected more than 117,000 signatures–far more than the 63,000 signatures required by state law–to get a state constitutional amendment on the ballot that would allow people in the state to “make and carry out decisions about one’s own pregnancy, including the right to abortion.”
While having the measure on the ballot is unlikely to make traditionally deep-red Montana swing to Joe Biden, it will help Democratic incumbent Montana Senator Jon Tester, who faces a close race against self-shooting Republican Tim Sheehy.