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.
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.
Mental Health Colorado’s Legislative Scorecard Shows Wide Partisan Gap, Especially in House
Yesterday, Mental Health Colorado released its 2021 Legislative Report, detailing the bills it pushed for during the Colorado Legislature’s 2021 session.
Colorado Republican Legislators Join Election Fraud Conspiracy Panel
The insurrection’s “Big Lie” still lives in Colorado
FEC United Founder Threatens Journalists at GOP Candidate Event
At an event yesterday intended to showcase the candidates whom the new conservative political group FEC United is supporting, founder Joe Oltmann threatened to dox journalists who report negatively about the group.