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This week on
Capitol Talk, restrictions on abortion and trans rights dominate the House Judiciary Committee while that same committee s Republicans bar reporters from a meeting. All that as old fissures reappear in the Republican caucus.
Listen now on
Capitol Talk with Sally Mauk, Holly Michels and Rob Saldin.
Sally Mauk Holly, the Judiciary Committee this week passed, on mostly party line votes, bills aimed at limiting abortions and limiting options for transgender Montanans. Let s start with the abortion bills that are now headed to the full House. And these are bills we ve seen before in previous sessions.
Holly Michels They are. They re pretty controversial pieces of legislation, and it feels to me like they re hitting pretty early on in this session. Like you said, there s four abortion bills that all advanced out of the House Judiciary Committee this week. Those were on party line votes, with Republican support and Democratic opposition.