As a bill to strengthen school vaccination requirements advances in Colorado’s Democratically-controlled legislature, Republican opposition to pro-vaccine policy remains strong, with every Republican lawmaker on the House Health and Insurance Committee voting against the measure Sunday and more in Colorado’s General Assembly vocally opposing it.
It’s official: Colorado voters will be asked to decide whether to ban abortion after 22 weeks on Election Day in November.
On Saturday afternoon, thousands gathered at Colorado’s Capitol for a peaceful protest during which protesters laid face down on the ground with their hands behind their backs chanting “I can’t breathe,” some of George Floyd’s last words before he died. The demonstration lasted for 9 minutes, roughly the length of time Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into the back of Floyd’s neck.
Protests are planned Saturday and Monday against institutionalized racism and the murder of Geroge Floyd at Colorado’s Capitol, in the wake of a protest Thursday evening that turned increasingly chaotic.
The ballot initiative campaign to ban abortion at 22 weeks announced today that they have enough signatures to qualify for Colorado’s November ballot.
Colorado’s Republican Senator, Cory Gardner, who built his early political career on a platform of opposition to abortion, hasn’t yet taken a position on a potential ballot initiative that would ban abortions at 22 weeks in Colorado.
The campaign to place an initiative that would ban abortion at 22 weeks on Colorado’s November ballot is promoting a false statistic about the frequency of Down syndrome diagnoses in patients who terminate pregnancies in an apparent attempt to frame later abortion care as disability discrimination.
If restrictions imposed to fight COVID-19 are like slavery, then those who defy those orders are like civil rights icons.
As COVID-19 forces us to rethink anything requiring human interaction, many are calling for more virus-appropriate elections by implementing mail-in ballots in states that don’t already have them.
