The myth that abortion causes vast negative physical and psychological side effects is frequently parroted by anti-abortion activists, who falsely claim that abortion can cause everything from breast cancer to suicide.

Colorado congressional candidate Lauren Boebert, a Republican, stressed the importance of the doctor-patient relationship at a campaign event in Walsenburg earlier this month before then speaking about her support for Proposition 115, a measure that would impose criminal penalties for doctors who perform abortions after 22 weeks.

Proponents of Colorado’s Proposition 115 ballot measure to ban abortions at 22 weeks gestation say a 22-week cutoff is reasonable because that’s when a fetus is viable.

If a pregnant woman is at risk of severe health consequences or death if she carries a pregnancy to term, would Colorado’s proposed ban on later abortions prevent her from having an abortion that is deemed to be medically advisable?

Abortion rights rose to the forefront of the 2020 election with Friday’s death of Supreme Court Justice and reproductive rights icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg, all but guaranteeing an indomitable anti-choice majority on the highest court in the land for years to come.

Backers of a ballot measure to ban later abortion care in Colorado are following national trends within the anti-abortion movement of borrowing language from the Black Lives Matter movement and attempting to frame abortion access as a threat to racial justice.

Catholic Church leaders have been a driving political force behind Proposition 115, a ballot initiative that seeks to ban abortion at 22 weeks of pregnancy in Colorado.