This week Colorado’s House Education Committee will hear a new bill to expand access to medication abortion on college campuses. Sponsored by Rep. Lorena Garcia (D-Denver), Rep. Kenny Nguyen (D-Broomfield) and Sen. Katie Wallace (D-Longmont), House Bill 1335 would require colleges that operate a student health center to provide on-site abortion medication services, require those colleges pharmacies to maintain a stock of abortion medication or submit a prescription for abortion medication to a pharmacy located off-campus. The bill does have an exemption for colleges with “bona fide religious beliefs or practices.”
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Republican Lawmakers, Pastors, LGBTQ Group Raise Concerns About Trans Rights Bill
Colorado Republican legislators and pastors gathered at the Capitol yesterday to oppose House Bill 25-1312, the Kelly Loving Act, named after one of the victims of the 2022 Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs. The bill would require courts to consider deadnaming, misgendering, or threatening to publish material related to an individual’s gender-affirming health-care services as types of coercive control when making custody decisions; protect transgender patients and their parents from out-of-state actions; allow students to choose between sex-based dress code options; and define deadnaming and misgendering as discriminatory acts in the “Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act.”
Pro-Abortion Activists Engaging with Faith Communities this Election Season
This Saturday, just blocks away from Rep. Gabe Evans’ (R-Fort Lupton) newly-opened CD8 campaign “battlestation,” the Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR) held a campaign launch to mobilize Latines in Colorado to turn out to vote and enshrine abortion rights into the state constitution.
‘We Should Be a Welcoming Community:’ Two Bills Supporting Immigrants Are Signed into Law
This afternoon in the Governor’s Mansion, Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) signed two bills aimed at supporting immigrants in the state, making it easier for them to obtain a driver’s license or identification card and providing funds for settlement programs.
Rally Speaker: “Our Country Has No Room for Corrupt Leaders!”
“Up, Up with liberation, down, down with deportation,” chanted hundreds of anti-Trump protesters in front of the Broadmoor World Arena yesterday, a couple hours before the president took the stage for a two-hour speech.