Montana judge rules teen birth control coverage ban unconstitutional
Source: Missoulian.com {Montana}
HELENA A Helena district judge has declared unconstitutional the states ban on prescription birth control
coverage for teenage girls covered under the states health insurance program for low-income people.
District Judge James Reynolds concluded that the state contraceptive ban for teenage girls in the Healthy Montana
Kids Program violates the right of privacy and the rights of persons not adults set forth in the Montana Constitution.
The Healthy Montana Kids program, formerly known as the Childrens Health Insurance Program,
insures children with family incomes up 250 percent of the federal poverty level.
The state has failed to provide a compelling state reason for this exclusion and has failed to show how
this exclusion enhances the rights of persons not adults, Reynolds said. Rather, as the court determined
and as the state itself declared: reducing teenage pregnancy (is) a compelling state interest.
Read more: http://missoulian.com/news/local/montana-judge-rules-teen-birth-control-coverage-ban-unconstitutional/article_8f07b27e-9a1a-11e1-8e03-001a4bcf887a.html
reducing teenage pregnancy (is) a compelling state interest.
sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)there after all!
goclark
(30,404 posts)4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)just on a practical note: teenage girls who cannot afford birth control are exactly the population that should not be reproducing.
If they do the odds so much higher that their kids will need state assistance and/or run afoul of the law. This is a net saver in the long run.
LiberalLoner
(9,762 posts)We get pretty mad at crap that harms us and is unfair. That explains a lot of recent actions from my home state.
Montana state motto: speed limits don't matter when you're driving drunk anyway
WoodyD
(215 posts)speed limits don't matter when you're driving drunk anyway
Oh, for the good old days, when open container was legal and the speed limit was "reasonable and prudent."
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)WoodyD
(215 posts)It's not all crazed, gun-hoarding, backwoods-cabin-dwelling, government-hating loners here. Most, but not all.
DCKit
(18,541 posts)The way these rulings are popping up, you'd think the number of (R) strokes would be epidemic by now.