Conservatives across the country have long sought to ban any public funds from going to Planned Parenthood because the organization performs abortions.
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Reproductive rights once again under attack in Colorado’s legislature
On the eve of what’s expected to be a massive Women’s March in Denver, Republican state lawmakers once again introduced a bill that seeks to limit abortions in a variety of ways, including imposing a waiting period and mandatory ultrasounds–and forcing doctors to describe scientifically shaky concepts, like fetal pain and abortion reversal, to women seeking to terminate their pregnancies.
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Progressive leaders say Democratic Party should shun abortion opponents
Directors of 18 progressive organizations called on Democrats yesterday not to welcome or accommodate anti-choice policy-makers in their party.
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Colorado lawmaker speaks about abortion experience in video launching national reproductive rights coalition
The progressive State Innovation Exchange (SiX) unveiled the Reproductive Freedom Leadership Council (RFLC) last week with a series of videos, one of which featured Colorado State Rep. Dafna Michaelson Jenet (D-Commerce City) in which she explains how her abortion experience informs her commitment to fighting for reproductive justice.
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Thousands gather at state capitol to march for the end of legal abortion
Thousands showed up to the Celebrate Life Rally and March at Colorado’s Capitol Saturday to show support for ending legal abortion.
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How do reporters deal with Cynthia Coffman’s abortion stance?
Republican gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Coffman told Peter Jones of the South Metro Villager last month that she backs abortion rights. Jones reported:
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Anti-abortion ultrasound van uncritically heralded as “mobile medical unit” in local papers
Two local papers have published reports on a new ultrasound van offering services and council to pregnant women in southern Colorado with little to no mention of the anti-abortion stance of the organizations behind the program.
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Cynthia Coffman refuses to appear on conservative talk radio show, says host
After her stance on abortion came under scrutiny by multiple conservative radio hosts, gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Coffman is now refusing to appear on KNUS’ Craig Silverman show, according to fellow KNUS host Chuck Bonniwell, who’s also publisher of the Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle.
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Anti-choice leaders react angrily to news that a pregnancy prevention program lowers teen abortion rate by 64 percent
Colorado officials and pro-abortion advocates are ecstatic over new statistics showing that the teen abortion rate has dropped 64 percent in Colorado over eight years, due mostly to a state-run program offering free or low-cost intrauterine devices (IUDs) and implants to women. Teen pregnancies are down 54 percent.
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Tax bill advances the agenda of Colorado’s proponents of a ‘Personhood’ abortion ban
The Republican tax bill is being stuffed with provisions that go way beyond taxes, including language that for the first time recognizes fertilized eggs (zygotes) in federal law.