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WATCH: Democrats slam Kirkmeyer over GOP candidate’s support for national abortion ban in new TV ad
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National Democrats took to the air Tuesday in Colorado with a TV ad linking Republican congressional candidate Barb Kirkmeyer to a potential national ban on abortion. The 30-second spot, released by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s independent expenditure arm, includes archival footage of the GOP nominee in Colorado’s 8th Congressional District saying she “[doesn’t] agree…
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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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SONDERMANN | Pro-choice is not the same as pro-Roe
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Eric Sondermann Some weeks down the road, likely in June, it is quite probable that we will be treated to breaking news of a U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning in whole or part the 49-year-old case of Roe v. Wade. Such a decision will be presented as earth-shattering by breathless media. Certainly, many will receive…
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Title Board revises ballot title for abortion criminalization initiative, advances pair of property tax caps
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The Title Board declined to revoke the ballot title previously awarded to a proposed ballot initiative criminalizing abortion, but it amended the description on Tuesday to more explicitly inform voters the measure would prohibit murdering a child “regardless of whether the child is a fetus.” The three-member board previously set a title for Initiative #56 in February…
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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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COURT CRAWL | Supreme Court back in session, eyes on Aurora
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Welcome to Court Crawl, Colorado Politics’ roundup of news from the third branch of government. The state Supreme Court will return to downtown Denver this week to hear two days of oral arguments, while a couple of constitutional rights cases against Colorado’s third-largest city have received rulings in the past week. Justices to hear cases…
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Colorado Democratic lawmakers to sponsor bill upholding women’s right to abortion in 2022 session
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The prospect that the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade is pushing Colorado’s Democratic women legislators to act, long before a decision from the court is likely. The nation’s highest court is reviewing Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a 2018 Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks.…
