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  • Opinion: LR-131 extreme, unnecessary to 'protect' infants

    Melody J. Cunningham MD FAAHPM, Missoula|Updated Oct 21, 2022

    As a pediatric hospice and palliative medicine physician for many years, I can speak directly to the unfathomable harm that a ballot initiative called LR-131 would cause. Titled the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, the initiative is an extreme, unnecessary, and cruel limitation of family decision-making that you'll see on the ballot this November. Although LR-131 purports to be about protecting infants, it requires health care providers to perform invasive and painful...