naral pro-choice colorado

NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado to run fund to pay for needy women’s abortions

Oct 24, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

This week the NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Foundation will finalize its merger with the Freedom Fund, which provides money to help women pay for abortions. The program will be called the Women’s Freedom Fund. The program was started in 1984 by the First Universalist Church of Denver to help women who were barred from abortion services…
EMILY’s List targets Secretary of State Wayne Williams, Colorado Senate’s Republican majority

Sep 14, 2017

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Ernest Luning

EMILY’s List, a national group that recruits and helps fund Democratic women candidates, said Thursday it’s putting Colorado’s Republican Secretary of State Wayne Williams and GOP state senators “on notice,” naming them to its list of top targets for defeat in next year’s election. The group charged that Williams has “failed to defend” Coloradans against…
Feminist, author of ‘All the Single Ladies’ to address Denverites (single or otherwise)

Sep 7, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado isn’t just about abortion rights and reproductive rights; as part of that core mission, it champions women’s rights in general. And on Sept. 14, it is bringing one of the country’s more prominent feminist voices, award-winning author Rebecca Traister, to Denver to talk about women and society. A big topic, to be…
Colorado Dem Danielle Glover elected executive vice president of Young Democrats of America

Aug 15, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado Democrat Danielle Glover won election as executive vice president of the Young Democrats of America on Saturday at the national organization’s biennial convention in Dallas. “People are recognizing that young people are the largest voting bloc,” Glover, 31, told Colorado Politics. “We have to make sure that we are sitting at every single table. My…
Republicans recognize being anti-choice is a losing proposition

Aug 15, 2017

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Karen Middleton

For 50 years, Colorado has been a leader in protecting and expanding access to women’s health care – and in proving that being pro-choice on abortion rights is a political winner. In April 1967, Colorado passed the nation’s first state law allowing safe, legal abortion. It was a bipartisan bill, passed in a majority-Republican legislature.…
Complaint charges Democrat Levi Tillemann went beyond ‘testing the waters’ while exploring congressional run

Jul 21, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A former Democratic elected official is accusing Levi Tillemann, an Aurora Democrat, of acting as a congressional candidate when he was operating an exploratory committee to determine whether to challenge U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, a five-term Republican, in Colorado’s 6th Congressional District. But Tillemann, one of three Democrats running for the swing seat, said his…
Progressives groups release combined scorecards rating Colorado legislators

Jun 26, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A group of liberal advocacy organizations for the first time released combined legislative scorecards this week, conglomerating assessments of the 100 Colorado lawmakers’ votes last session on key legislation the organizations said they plan to present to voters next year. A Republican who received among the lowest overall scores, however, dismissed the endeavor as a…
Senate anti-abortion ‘ultrasound bill’ generates heat in committee, advances for now

Apr 6, 2017

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John Tomasic

State Senate Republicans introduced a sweeping bill on Monday adapted from similar efforts across the country that would establish new rules around abortion services in Colorado with an eye to lowering the number of abortions performed in the state. The bill sped into committee Wednesday, leaving opponents playing catch up. NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado called a…
Democrats reject GOP efforts to curb abortion, including ‘reversal method’

Feb 10, 2017

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Peter Marcus

Democrats early Friday morning shot down a trio of bills pushed by abortion opponents following an 11-hour marathon hearing that saw an effort to reverse abortions. The bills that were rejected by the House Health, Insurance and Environment Committee on party-line votes included: House Bill 1086, sponsored by Reps. Justin Everett, R-Littleton, and Dan Nordberg, R-Colorado Springs, which…
Gorsuch draws praise, condemnation from Colorado leaders

Feb 1, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Nobody much wanted to talk about U.S. Appeals Court Judge Neil Gorsuch before Monday evening, but plenty spoke up when he became President Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. The native Coloradan who presided over federal cases in Denver for a decade faces a bruising confirmation process. Here are the statements that landed in…