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Reproductive Health Equity Act seeks to expressly codify abortion right in state law
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Democratic state lawmakers want to put a final stamp on the right to an abortion by expressly codifying it some 55 years after it became legal in Colorado. Opponents are already gearing for a legal challenge, should it become law. Members of the majority party introduced House Bill 22-1279, the Reproductive Health Equity Act, on Thursday. Sponsored…
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Colorado’s Catholics mobilize against the state’s ‘Blaine amendment’
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At first blush, it seems like an innocuous restatement of bedrock public policy: “No appropriation shall be made for charitable, industrial, educational or benevolent purposes to any person, corporation or community not under the absolute control of the state, nor to any denominational or sectarian institution or association.” That’s Article V, Sec. 34 of the…
