planned parenthood
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Federal judge ‘reluctantly’ dismisses claim by Club Q survivors against property owners
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A federal judge agreed last week that a recent change to Colorado law barred him from allowing the survivors of an LGBTQ nightclub shooting to hold the property owners liable for safety deficiencies that allegedly contributed to the massacre. At the same time, U.S. District Court Senior Judge William J. Martínez slammed the legislature’s 2022 amendment…
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Colorado appeals court finds no error in handling of Planned Parenthood mass shooting lawsuit
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Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday determined a trial judge did not unfairly limit the types of evidence jurors could hear when they rendered a verdict that Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains was not liable for a 2015 mass shooting at its Colorado Springs clinic. In 2021, a Denver jury decided Planned Parenthood did not…
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What do dueling mifepristone rulings mean for Colorado?
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On Friday, a federal judge in Texas issued a ruling to suspend the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone. That same day, another federal judge in Washington released a contradictory decision in a case where Colorado is among the plaintiffs. Here is an overview of what happened and what to expect. Q: What…
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Appeals court tosses defamation lawsuit against ex-Planned Parenthood exec for criticizing misleading videos
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Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday agreed the former chief medical officer for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains was correct to label a set of heavily-edited undercover videos as misleading, and her comments did not amount to defamation of the California-based abortion opponent who recorded the footage. A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals joined…
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Alleged Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Dear won’t be forcibly medicated for now
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DENVER – A mentally ill man charged with killing three people in 2015 at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic because it offered abortion services will not be forcibly medicated as he appeals a federal judge’s order allowing the involuntary treatment. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn ruled that involuntary medication was the…
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With abortion battle shifting to states, hard work lies ahead, both sides of debate say
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Angry outcries on one side – and joyous celebrations on the other – erupted with Friday’s anticipated U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the decades-old law guaranteeing women’s ability to get an abortion. The ruling on a 2018 Mississippi state law banning most abortions after 15 weeks of gestation effectively overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision…
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Planned Parenthood in ‘race’ to scale up Colorado abortion access to meet out-of-state demand
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Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains is in a race to scale up its capacity for abortion services to more out-of-state patients as Colorado and the rest of the country brace for a potential U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing states to decide the parameters of abortion access. On Monday night, Politico reported that the Supreme…
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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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A LOOK BACK | Colorado oil man nominated as ambassador to Niger
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Forty Years Ago This Week: Longmont Republican Bill Casey was nominated by the Reagan administration to serve as ambassador to Niger. Casey, a mining engineer, had worked in Niger for Conoco Oil from 1977 to 1979 and said that he felt familiar with the country, its resources and its problems. Casey was awaiting his Senate…
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Science is clear on the matter: Abortion saves women’s lives
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As a practicing OB/GYN in Denver, and an abortion provider, I’d like to correct some misstatements made in the media lately about women’s health care and the role the governor of Colorado will play – especially under the threat of Roe v. Wade being overturned. U.S. Rep. Jared Polis is absolutely correct. If Roe v.…
