During a typical write operation to Row 1, a voltage VWL is applied to a word-line WL1, wherein the VWL is typically greater than or equal to a threshold voltage of the access transistors 104, thereby turning on the access transistors within Row 1 and coupling the bit-lines BL1-BLM to the MTJ memory elements 102 in the accessed cells (e.g., memory cells C1-1 through C1-M). Suitable voltages are applied to the bit-lines BL1-BLM and source-lines SL1-SLM, where the voltage on each bit-line is representative of a data value to be written to the memory cell attached to that bit-line. While Row1 is accessed, the word-lines of the other rows (WL2-WLN) remain off, such that the MTJ memory elements of the other cells remain isolated and are not written to or read from.