Fri Apr 29, 2022 – 10:39 pm EDT
HELENA, Montana (LifeSiteNews) – A Montana judge will not lift a “temporary” injunction on an abortion parental consent law that has been in place for almost nine years despite an appeal by the state’s Republican attorney general to let the law finally take effect.
Passed in 2013, Montana’s Parental Consent Act requires a signed consent form from a parent or guardian before an abortion is committed on anyone below age 18. Planned Parenthood of Montana sued, and then-Attorney General Tim Fox, a Republican, agreed to a preliminary injunction, expecting the case to be resolved in a timely fashion. Instead, the law remained tied up in court for the better part of a decade.
The Washington Times reported that on April 20, current Attorney General Austin Knudsen, also a Republican, filed a motion declaring that the law “must be allowed to take effect immediately. Not next week. Not on or after June 10, 2022. Today.”
“The State moves to dissolve the preliminary injunction in this case,” the motion argued. “It’s been 3,181 days since the consent injunction was entered. That’s eight years, eight-and-a-half months, or 104.5 months, or 34.8 trimesters
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