Colorado’s Family Planning Initiative (CFPI), which made low-cost contraceptives widely available, has been lauded as a public health success story after it drove a massive reduction in the state’s unintended pregnancy rate.
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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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You Can Now Get Birth Control Delivered by Mail Through Planned Parenthood’s New App
Those looking to get birth control or treatment for urinary tract infections (UTIs) from Planned Parenthood may not even have to show up to a clinic to do so thanks to a new app.
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Don’t Be Fooled (Again) By Gardner’s Over the Counter Birth Control Line
Colorado’s Republican Senator Cory Gardner is once again touting a bill in support of over the counter birth control.
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With Trump’s Abortion Gag Rule Now In Effect, Boulder Clinic Braces For Financial Hardship
The Trump Administration has begun to enforce its abortion gag rule, which strips family planning funds from health care providers that perform abortions, refer to abortion providers, or even discuss abortion with their patients.
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Will Tony Sanchez’s Opposition To All Abortion Sink His State Senate Campaign?
Republican state senate candidate Tony Sanchez’s views on reproductive health could prove to be too far-right for a district with more registered Democrats than Republicans.
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Aspiring State Lawmaker Apparently Thinks Low-Income Women Should Be Sterilized, Birth Control Causes Abortions, And More
In a series of Facebook posts from 2012, Mary Fabian, a candidate for Colorado’s House of Representatives, defended a U.S. Senate candidate who said at the time that the incidence of pregnancy after “legitimate rape” is low because a women’s body will stop such pregnancies spontaneously.
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Trump’s attempt to defund Planned Parenthood won’t work in Colorado. Here’s why.
When the Trump Administration proposed a new rule last month to strip federal funding from abortion providers nationwide, many saw it as an attack on Planned Parenthood, which the president has repeatedly said he’d like to “defund.”
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Coloradans to Trump: “Hands off my birth control”
At a rally today to oppose the Trump administration’s weakening of the Obama-era mandate for employers to provide birth control coverage at no cost to patients, several reproductive rights advocates explained why affordable birth control is central to the health, well-being, and empowerment of women.
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Colorado just made it easier to access contraception
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed a bill Monday that will make it easier for women to access birth control.