March planned in support of CI-128 Monday

A Havre High School student is organizing a march Monday in support of CI-126, the initiative that would put a woman being able to choose to have an abortion in the state Constitution.

Dylan Kunz, 16, said the march will start at the Havre High School West Parking Lot Monday at 6 p.m. and proceed to Hensler Auditorium in Montana State University-Northern's Applied Technology Center, where a presentation on CI-126, the open primary initiative, and CI-127, which requires a majority vote, at least 51 percent, for a candidate to win an election, starts at 6 p.m. That will be followed by recorded prevention by Montanans Securing Reproductive Rights at 7 p.m.

Kunz said he wants to show support for enshrining in the constitution a woman's ability to make her own decision's about reproductive health care.

"The reason we're marching for this is to tell the public that the youth is listening, the youth knows what is happening and the youth are going to get engaged," he said. "CI-128 will will affect future generations, of Montanana, it'll affect daughters, sisters, mothers, grandmothers. And we want to make sure that we can raise awareness and that we can get this bill passed."

"A personal belief of mine is that this never should even be on a ballot," Kunz added. "This isn't a political fight, it's a privacy right. We are politicizing health care and demonizing women for getting abortions or making that very hard choice already is extremely wrong.

" ... Now's the time," he said, "'cause if we hesitate, if we wait, we can't guarantee this right to privacy for all future Montanans it's it's something that's really, really important."

Watch for more on this in the Oct. 24 edition of Havre Weekly Chronicle.