Montana gubernatorial candidate compares getting an abortion to taking aspirin

Source: Raw Story

Montana gubernatorial candidate compares getting an abortion to taking aspirin
By Arturo Garcia
Friday, September 21, 2012 21:04 EDT


The Republican candidate in the Montana governor’s race likened the decision to get an abortion to taking an aspirin during the state’s first gubernatorial debate earlier this week.

“You can’t give a child an aspirin in school, but you can refer people to have an abortion without parental consent, and that’s wrong,” former state Rep. Rick Hill (R) said Wednesday night while expressing support for a referendum on the state ballot this November that would require women under 18 to get parental consent before having an abortion.

Hill’s opponent, Democratic state attorney general Steve Bullock, has opposed the referendum.

“Complicated, difficult and incredibly personal decisions like this should not be made by the government,” Bullock told The Billings Gazette earlier this year. “They should be made by a woman, in consultation with her family, her doctor and her faith. Montanans recognize and cherish an individual right of privacy — a change recognized under the U.S. Constitution and explicitly enshrined in Montana’s Constitution.”


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