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House panel kills trio of GOP-sponsored anti-abortion bills
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Three anti-abortion bills, sponsored by conservatives in the House Republican caucus, all met the same fate in hearings that started Wednesday afternoon and stretched into the early morning hours of Thursday. All three failed on party-line votes. Two of the bills are perennial attempts by the more conservative wing of the GOP caucus to either…
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Colorado Democratic lawmakers to sponsor bill upholding women’s right to abortion in 2022 session
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The prospect that the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade is pushing Colorado’s Democratic women legislators to act, long before a decision from the court is likely. The nation’s highest court is reviewing Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a 2018 Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks.…
