Colorado lawmakers are making big moves to improve maternal health and address racial disparities in care.
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Catholic Healthcare Conference Sponsored by Catholic Hospitals Promotes Anti-LGBTQ Extremism
Medical professionals and Catholic leaders gathered in Denver last week for a conference on health care ethics that promoted anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion extremism and echoed the Republican Party’s attacks against transgender youth.
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Boebert Pushing Racist “White Replacement” Voter Conspiracy
Colorado Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s anti-immigrant rhetoric has taken a dark turn as of late, nodding to a white supremacist theory that says people of color are replacing white populations and promoting the conspiracy that Democrats support immigration because it gives them an electoral advantage.
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In Shift, CO Republican Leader Implies That Abortion Is an Election-Losing Issue for the Party
In a shift in tone following her election as chair of the Colorado Republican Party last month, Kristi Burton Brown, who built her political career on anti-abortion activism, signaled that opposition to abortion can no longer be part of Republicans’ strategy in Colorado if they want to win elections.
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Trailblazing Colorado Bill Would Offer Free Contraceptives to Undocumented Immigrants
For undocumented immigrants in Colorado and all over the country, health care is practically unattainable due to cost barriers and citizenship requirements for government-funded programs.
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Boebert: The ‘One Thing’ Feminists, LGBTQ People Have in Common Is Communism
In what can only be understood as conservative outrage word salad, Colorado Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert said during an interview last week that feminists, LGBTQ people, and transgender people share a single common goal of advancing communism, which she argued undermines Second Amendment rights.
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Despite History of Abuse, CO Catholic Church Opposes Bill to Increase Abortion Access for Assault Survivors
During a legislative hearing last week on a bill that would increase abortion access for survivors of sexual violence, a prominent Colorado Catholic Church leader spoke out in opposition, saying that “abortion after rape and incest turns one victim into two.”
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“A Handmaid’s Tale Fever Dream”: Dem Lawmakers Again Block GOP’s Attempts to Ban Abortion in CO
It’s more or less the same story every year in Colorado’s General Assembly. Republicans introduce ill-fated bills to restrict abortion, lawmakers are forced to spend hours hotly debating the topic, Democrats block said bills, and we all get to move on with our lives.
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Republican Lawmakers Want CO to Publish Personal Info About People Who Have Abortions
Rejected by voters, conservatives are seeking new avenues for banning abortion in Colorado Over the last dozen years, anti-abortion advocates have tried just about everything in their power to enact major restrictions on abortion in Colorado, from banning the procedure altogether to imposing gestational cutoffs.
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Colorado Lawmakers Aim to Increase Abortion Access for Sexual Assault Survivors
In most states, those who rely on Medicaid for their health insurance are severely limited when it comes to abortion coverage due to laws that prevent public funding for abortion except in cases of life endangerment, rape, and incest.