Abby Johnson, who worked as a Planned Parenthood clinic director in Bryan, TX before allegedly having a change of heart and becoming an anti-choice activist, will be speaking at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver next month.
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Coloradans Behind Ballot Initiative Banning Later Abortion Care Hold Far-Right Views
Earlier this month, anti-choice advocates filed a Colorado ballot initiative that would ban abortion after 22 weeks.
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Abortion Rights Are Safe in Colorado, but Only for Now, Advocates Warn
As some states move to pass the harshest abortion restrictions seen in decades, Colorado remains one of a handful of states where reproductive rights are safest.
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Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers Are Teaching Sex Ed in Colorado Schools. Will a New Law Stop Them?
When representatives from Alternatives Pregnancy Center began giving a presentation to his freshman health class at a public school in Highlands Ranch earlier this month, Clark Wilson already knew what the organization was — an anti-abortion crisis pregnancy center, or CPC, that uses deceptive tactics to sway women’s reproductive health care decisions.
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The Colorado GOP Pushed An Abortion Ban Of Their Own Earlier This Year
A bill to ban nearly all abortions that was signed into law in Alabama this week is nearly identical to a bill that was pushed by Colorado Republicans earlier this year.
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Cory Gardner is Participating in the Smear Campaign Against Abortions Occurring Later in Pregnancy
Colorado Republican Senator Cory Gardner is joining those within his party who are using inflammatory rhetoric and misinformation about abortions that happen later in pregnancy, often referred to by conservatives as “late-term abortions.”
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Grand Junction Hospital Will Retain Reproductive Health Services by Calling Off Merger with Centura
In calling off a merger with religiously-affiliated hospital group Centura Health, Grand Junction’s Community Hospital will remain free to offer reproductive health services like birth control and sterilization to its patients.
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Billboard Near UT Border: “Welcome to Colorado, where you can get a safe, legal abortion”
A new billboard facing west on I-70 near Colorado’s border with Utah reads “Welcome to Colorado, where you can get a safe, legal abortion.”
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Lawmaker Who Said Blacks And Whites Were Lynched At Equal Rates Now Pushing Bill To Ban Abortion
Colorado State Rep. Lori Saine, who grabbed headlines last week after claiming that whites and blacks were lynched in nearly equal numbers, is pushing a bill that would criminalize all abortion by defining life as starting at conception.
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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.