In an email sent to supporters Saturday, the organization behind a ballot initiative to ban abortion at 22 weeks in Colorado revealed that it asked the Secretary of State to grant it “additional considerations” in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Abortion Rights Advocates from Colorado Join Rally in Washington DC
At the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday morning, supporters of overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, which expanded abortion rights, defended a Louisiana law that, according to critics, effectively strips physicians from responsibly treating their patients and moves America one step closer to banning abortion outright.
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DeVos Weighs in on Abortion, Funding Religious Schools
WASHINGTON DC — Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos weighed in on a host of issues during the Colorado Christian University’s annual president’s dinner Wednesday night at the Museum of the Bible, at one point drawing comparisons of the abortion rights debate to the ending of slavery.
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Colo Republicans Introduce Anti-Abortion Bills, Including a Total Abortion Ban
Republican lawmakers in Colorado’s legislature introduced two anti-abortion bills at the beginning of the 2020 legislative session last week, one of which would ban nearly all abortions, and one that draws upon conservative’s scare tactics around abortions that occur later in pregnancy.
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Colorado Republicans in Congress Ask Supreme Court to Consider Overturning Roe
In a legal brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court last week, three of the four Republicans in Colorado’s congressional delegation joined over 200 federal lawmakers in urging the court to reconsider the constitutional right to an abortion.
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Gardner Confirms Yet Another Extreme Anti-Choice Federal Judge
Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner has voted to confirm yet another lifetime federal judge with such radical anti-abortion views that even Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who, like Gardner, is facing a tough re-election campaign next year, voted against confirming.
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Boulder Abortion Provider Recovers Funding That Was Lost Due to Trump’s Abortion Gag Rule
The Boulder Valley Women’s Health Center (BVWHC) is getting help from the state to make up for the funding it lost due to the Trump Administration’s policies aiming to restrict access to abortion.
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Local News Coverage of Anti-Abortion Ballot Initiative Promotes Misinformation
Recent coverage from a local Grand Junction news station about a ballot initiative to ban abortion at 22 weeks in Colorado promoted misinformation about abortion from an anti-abortion pregnancy center, which the station failed to identify.
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Poll: Coloradans Less Likely to Vote for Gardner if He Supports Gagging Clinics From Discussing Abortion
New polling from Hart Research Associates shows that Colorado voters are less likely to support U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) if he doesn’t push back against the Trump Administration’s recent changes to the Title X family planning program, known as the Title X gag rule.
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Gardner Continues to Promote Myth of Democratic Support for Infanticide
Colorado’s Republican Senator Cory Gardner is once again promoting the idea that babies born alive after failed abortions don’t always receive medical care, an event which doctors say doesn’t occur.