The Colorado Independent

Wednesday, June 19th, 2013

Health Care

In Denver debate, Planned Parenthood’s Richards looking to see women’s health tied to economy

By | 10.03.12 | 6:57 pm

DENVER– With the first presidential debate set to begin here at the University of Denver campus in a matter of minutes, Cecile Richards, national president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, told the Colorado Independent she would like to see the candidates discuss some of the ways women’s access to health care is tied to the national economy and the financial prospects of the nation’s citizens.

Anti-choice tactic revealed: increase the cost of abortions in order to reduce the number

By | 09.21.12 | 10:30 am

Anti-abortion restrictions should be designed to raise “the costs” of abortions in order to discourage women from obtaining them, a prominent scholar for a leading anti-abortion group told an audience of social conservative activists in Washington last weekend.

Obama in Golden seeks to rev up swing-state campaign

By | 09.13.12 | 4:17 pm

GOLDEN– On his eighth trip to swing-state Colorado this election year, President Obama came to this scenic town in battleground Jefferson County to energize and recruit ground troops to help his campaign win the state’s nine electoral college votes, just as he did in 2008.

Personhood Colorado not taking no for an answer

By | 09.12.12 | 11:16 am

Jennifer Mason, spokeswoman for Personhood Colorado, told the Colorado Independent, she believes it’s not too late for her group to land its anti-abortion initiative on the ballot in Colorado this year.

Coerced-abortion laws part of new pro-life strategy

By | 08.30.12 | 9:55 am

On a Friday morning in September 2005, 22-year-old Brittany Wilson sat in a Planned Parenthood clinic a mile away from her home in Sioux Falls, S.D., and bawled her eyes out. Ten days before, she had called the clinic to schedule an abortion. Three days before her appointment, she had called back to listen to some state-mandated information about the risks of abortion and her legal rights. And moments before, she had driven to the clinic alone and paid $447. But she was crying, she would later say, because she did not want this abortion.

Personhood drive fails to clear signature hurdle in Colorado; supporters plan protest

By | 08.29.12 | 1:37 pm

DENVER– The Colorado secretary of state announced today that the petition drive to land an anti-abortion “personhood” initiative on the November ballot failed to qualify, missing the mark by roughly 4,000 signatures. Personhood Colorado plans to protest the signature tallies released by the secretary of state and is confident the measure will appear for a vote this year.

‘No Personhood’ Colorado campaign cautions against big government

By | 08.24.12 | 11:15 am

DENVER– A rally hosted here Thursday on the steps of the capitol by this year’s “No Personhood Campaign” featured speakers who decried government intervention into citizens’ private lives and admonished overreaching political activists who would tap the organs of the state to solve perceived social ills.

New Arvada Planned Parenthood cancer project funded by Komen flap

By | 08.22.12 | 2:07 pm

Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains announced this week that it is launching a new breast cancer prevention and screening project at its Arvada clinic.

Survey suggests HIV laws intimidating, counterproductive

By | 08.10.12 | 11:10 am

WASHINGTON, DC — Nearly half of HIV-positive respondents to a recently released survey on HIV criminalization say they believe they will not receive a fair hearing in the criminal justice system if they ever face charges for failing to disclose their status to sexual partners.

Criminalization of HIV nondisclosure may discourage testing, study indicates

By | 07.23.12 | 6:30 am

LANSING — A team of researchers has published findings that they say indicate criminalization of HIV may discourage testing and hinder efforts to prevent the spread of the disease.

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