2025 -- A Year in Review for Montana Medical Freedom Alliance

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Montana Medical Freedom Alliance

A Message to Our Supporters

As the year nears its end, I reflect on Montana Medical Freedom Alliance’s first year in operation. We are a startup, grassroots nonprofit that only exists because of a calling from God that each of us felt—a calling to DO SOMETHING… to get involved!

As the founder, I had a fulfilling and well-compensated job as a nurse leader in the Seattle area, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that God was calling me back to my home state of Montana to get involved politically. I had watched Washington become a cesspool of mandates, threatened parental rights, extreme progressive healthcare policies, and a cultural environment where vulnerable youth were swept into the false promises of “gender-affirming care.” I was determined to help ensure Montana did not follow that same path.

Others on our Board of Directors have also felt coerced, silenced, pressured, and dismayed at the state of healthcare in our state and across the nation.

Trust in our physicians is at an all-time low. Parents who simply want to discuss modifying a vaccine schedule are often scolded —or even dismissed from the practice. Physicians who wish to ask reasonable questions or practice individualized medicine, rather than what is dictated by the powers that be, find their hands tied when trying to provide ethical patient care or give true informed consent. They risk their licenses and their reputations.

Nurses feel the same pressure. They watch treatments proceed without true informed consent, see alternative options ignored, and face strong arm-twisting from leadership or peers to accept medical interventions they do not want.

That’s why we feel so passionate about our Alliance and the positive changes we can help bring to Montana healthcare. When providers, nurses, counselors, and pharmacists are free to practice within the confines of their Judeo-Christian beliefs and ethical standards, they will stay in the state and provide care for like-minded patients who are desperate to find a practitioner they can once again trust.

It’s a win-win. Providers stay in Montana, practice medicine within the tenets of their religious, moral, and professional convictions, and patients have access to providers who respect their autonomy, personal choices, and intelligence.

Our Work in 2025

In 2025, I lobbied full-time at the Montana Legislature on behalf of MMFA. We championed three key bills, sponsored by Representative Greg Kmetz (R–Miles City):

HB 682: Generally Revise Laws Regarding Gender Transition Treatment
HB 371: Ban mRNA Vaccines in Montana for Humans (the technology used to make the Covid shot)
HB 418: Ban mRNA Vaccines in Montana for Animals

It was a hard-fought battle, but HB 682 was passed and signed into law by Governor Gianforte and already has had measurable impact in protecting Montana’s youth from gender mutilation. The law extends the length of time a person harmed by “gender-affirming care” can sue in medical malpractice if the treatment was obtained as a minor. It also requires insurers to cover detransition care if they first covered the gender transition.

The effect of this new law cannot be overstated—three of the busiest gender clinics in Montana have now stopped providing this service for minors. Unlike previous bills that outlawed gender care and were immediately overturned by liberal Montana judges and the Montana Supreme Court, this law stands and is having very positive outcomes for our children. Evidence continues to grow showing that gender mutilation does NOT improve the mental health of children, while time and counseling generally do.

Although the mRNA bills were not successful, we had excellent committee hearings where accurate and compelling evidence was presented about the harms and ineffectiveness of the Covid-19 vaccines. We are already hearing of minds changed on the safety of the shots. Seeds were planted—perhaps next session will be successful in removing the shots from distribution, unless it happens on a federal level first. Strong evidence has been brought forth from the U.S. Health and Human Services supporting our position since the end of the legislative session.

We testified on a total of twenty-one bills, standing firm on issues of sanctity of life, protecting the vulnerable at the end of life, parental rights in healthcare, the definition of sex, acceptance of personal and medical vaccine exemptions, the protection of pregnancy resource centers, and the protection of vulnerable Montanans from experimental treatment centers to name a few.

Building Alliances

Most importantly, many new and important alliances were formed this year—with key legislators and with like-minded organizations such as the Montana Family Foundation and Prolife Montana, and nationally, such as Alliance Defending Freedom, Independent Medical Alliance (formerly FLCCC), and Do No Harm. We will continue to partner with these organizations to strengthen our call for medical freedom, informed consent, free speech, and a return to the Hippocratic Oath in medicine.

Your Support Matters

As we are near the end of 2025, your tax-deductible year-end giving will help us carry on this essential fight. If we don’t have autonomy over our own bodies, if we cannot access transparent and accurate medical information, if we cannot support freedom-minded providers, nurses, pharmacists, and counselors in Montana, we will quickly find ourselves in a state where we lose our independence and freedom.

There is no other organization advocating for these values for healthcare professionals except us. Your support matters. Every dollar counts and is deeply appreciated.

Thank you for considering MMFA for your end-of-year giving.

To give online, visit www.montanamedicalfreedomalliance.org.

Or send a check to: MMFA 2047 N Last Chance Gulch #424, Helena, MT 59601

God bless you and this great state of Montana~

Erin Laws, RN, CPAN

Erin@montanamedicalfreedomalliance.org

406-202-7220

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