 She is a reproductive rights advocate, sponsoring legislation on the topic, and a longtime nurse practitioner advocate.She was an original sponsor of legislation to legalize needle exchange programs to stop the spread of AIDS, wrote the law banning female genital mutilation, and sponsored a current law that prohibits the discrimination in the granting of funeral or bereavement leave to workers in committed same-sex relationships.In 2013 Montgomery was caught on tape at the home of then-Senator Shirley Huntley in a federal corruption probe along with six other government officials.