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NARAL targets Colorado, Gardner with ad blitz to fight Supreme Court pick
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The abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America is launching a new digital ad campaign across five states, including Colorado, seeking to fight the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the Supreme Court. The ad campaign announced Monday is the start of a major effort by abortion rights groups against President Trump’s pick of Kavanaugh…
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The ‘Handmaids’ in red are coming to a political protest near you
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Overheard in line at a Denver supermarket: “Yeah, I’m seeing them all the time on the TV news – the ladies dressed like Little Red Riding Hood.” They are indeed becoming a staple of Colorado news coverage – on TV, in print, online – though, of course, they’re not going for Little Red Riding Hood.…
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? DeGette: Ending the Hyde Amendment
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Recently there’s been a groundswell of support for legislation to right a four-decade wrong: a restriction using federal funds for women’s health care that has predominantly hurt the underprivileged. This ban, known as the Hyde Amendment, prohibits federal funds in Medicaid and other health programs from being used for abortions. Now the restriction stops this…
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Progressive groups rupture, oppose ColoradoCare
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Calling it a “well-intentioned but flawed proposal,” a leading progressive organization has decided to oppose the ColoradoCare amendment that would create a state-run health care program. The board of directors of ProgressNow Colorado voted to oppose Amendment 69 on the Colorado general election ballot, despite broad agreement with the ColoradoCare campaign’s stated goals. “The first…
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How Morgan Carroll is defying the Hillary-Bernie divide
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Morgan Carroll knows it’s no small thing that, as she campaigns to unseat U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman in Colorado’s swing 6th Congressional District, she so far has managed to successfully navigate the roiling, divisive party politics this year that has marked the presidential primaries. Residents of the district, which curls around Denver’s eastern border, have…
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Middleton: Why attacking reproductive freedom in Colorado is backfiring
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An interesting thing happened on the way to NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado’s 2016 Annual Gala and Silent Auction: after an escalation of both physical and legislative attacks on reproductive rights over the past year, it turned into one of our biggest events ever in terms of attendance. We included a very special award to Vicki Cowart and…
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VIDEO: Capitol emotions stirred by GOP personhood, fetal homicide bills
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It had been coming for weeks to the Capitol, no different this legislative session than past legislative sessions, and Thursday was the day. Pro-choice and Pro-life lawmakers faced off in House committees over two bills aimed at protecting the unborn. The bill sponsors and their supporters produced passionate arguments. Opponents did the same. And nearly four…
