Wednesday’s grueling twelve-hour meeting of the Colorado House’s Health and Insurance Committee ended with the defeat of three extreme anti-abortion bills.
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Activists Get Okay to Collect Signatures to Place Abortion Ban Proposal on CO Ballot
The Colorado Title Board approved a personhood initiative yesterday, allowing backers to begin collecting signatures to place the measure on the November ballot.
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CO Lawmakers Announce Bill to Protect Abortion Rights in Wake of SCOTUS Hearing
A group of Colorado lawmakers announced this afternoon that they’ll be pushing a bill next year that would protect the right to an abortion in Colorado state law, a move that would further solidify Colorado’s status as a safe zone for abortion rights as other states in the region move to restrict reproductive autonomy.
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Colorado Abortion Foes Are Confident That the Days of Roe v. Wade Are Numbered
A rally held Monday by Colorado Christian University’s Centennial Institute celebrated what anti-abortion advocates hope could be the end of the constitutional right to an abortion as the U.S. Supreme Court prepared to hear arguments in a case that directly challenges Roe v. Wade.
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What the Supreme Court Battle Over the Texas Abortion Ban Means for Coloradans
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments today in two cases challenging Texas Senate Bill 8 (SB8), which has banned nearly all abortion in Texas since it took effect September 1. At stake is whether Texans will continue to have to travel to nearby states like Colorado for care, whether other conservative states will be emboldened to pass laws that mimic SB8, and the fate of the federal constitutional right to an abortion promised in Roe v. Wade.
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Heidi Ganahl, CO’s Top Republican Candidate for Gov, Is Anti-Abortion. Here’s Why it Matters.
In what appears to be her first public statement on abortion, Colorado governor candidate Heidi Ganahl said she is “pro-life.”
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Denver Abortion Clinic Sees Over 500% Increase in Texas Patients
Texans are flocking to Planned Parenthood clinics in Colorado after an abortion ban went into effect in Texas last month.
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CU Study: Banning Abortion Will Increase Maternal Deaths, Particularly for Black Women
New research from the University of Colorado in Boulder shows that banning abortion in the U.S. could lead to a huge increase in maternal deaths, particularly for Black women who already face a high maternal mortality rate.
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Colorado Advocates Are Helping Texans Get Abortions. Here’s How.
For abortion advocates in Colorado, confronting a situation in which the U.S. Supreme Court shuts down access to abortion in conservative states, requiring Colorado to take in huge waves of patients, has been a matter of when, not if.
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Republican Lawmakers in CO Pushed an ‘Abortion Surveillance’ Bill Earlier This Year
Editor’s note: This article was originally published in March after a Colorado Republican lawmaker introduced a bill that would have required abortion providers to interrogate patients and collect deeply personal information about them to be compiled in a public report. We’re republishing it now in light of Texas’ Senate Bill 8 going into effect, which deputizes private citizens to enforce a ban on abortion, effectively creating an abortion surveillance state. Now, the notion of a public registrar with personal details about the lives of abortion seekers takes on new meaning as private citizens are incentivized to sue anyone who provides or aids and abets an abortion in Texas.