personhood
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Title Board declines to advance personhood ballot initiative with Texas-style enforcement feature
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A state panel has blocked on procedural grounds a proposed ballot initiative that would generally ban abortions contrary to Supreme Court precedent, label fetuses as children, and include an enforcement mechanism similar to the one used in a controversial Texas anti-abortion law. Initiative #51, tentatively captioned “Prohibit Intentional Killing of a Living Child,” would make it…
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Polis: I’ll stand up for reproductive rights if elected governor
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There’s no “personhood’ amendment among the dozen measures voters will address on the November ballot. But according to U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, the Democratic party’s candidate for governor, reproductive rights are on the ballot in November in the form of who gets elected governor. Polis, who spoke at a roundtable hosted by Planned Parenthood of…
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THE PODIUM: ‘Extreme views of a few legislators keep us from working together’
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Every year, our Colorado state legislature is flooded with bills that would harm women. As a Christian pastor and leader of The Interfaith Alliance of Colorado, I see the way these bills not only threaten the health and wellbeing of people in our community, but I feel frustrated that the extreme views of a few…
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Colorado Supreme Court to take up state’s first-ever fight over embryos
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Who owns embryos after a divorce? The answer isn’t simple. Sometime in the next year, the Colorado Supreme Court is taking up the first-ever challenge to a long-standing state law that keeps embryos from being implanted once a couple is divorced. Mandy and Drake Rooks have three children, the result of in-vitro fertilization. Mandy Rooks…
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Senate anti-abortion ‘ultrasound bill’ generates heat in committee, advances for now
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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…
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From lobbying to campaigns, Fofi Mendez devoted to protecting vulnerable
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Twenty-five years later, lobbyist Fofi Mendez, the principle at Mendez Consulting, Inc., says the memory still sends a shiver down her spine. She had an established career in Colorado working in the anti-violence realm, directing victim’s services for the Rape Assistance and Awareness Program – now known as the Blue Bench – starting in the…
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Noonan: Mulligan legislation has poor success record at Capitol
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Kelly Brough, president and CEO of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, chastised Gov. John Hickenlooper and Capitol leadership at a recent luncheon for a poor record of accomplishment in the 2016 General Assembly. She wants legislators to take another crack at reclassifying the hospital provider fee and reforming construction defects law, two issues that got…
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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…
