Fact checking the fact checkers on Buck’s birth control stance

You’re excused for missing it, but there’s some disagreement among local TV reporters about whether Ken Buck’s anti-abortion stance means he’d oppose common birth-control methods.

Three local TV news stations fact checked the segment of a Michael Bennet ad stating…

Embattled anti-abortion Stupak done with Congress

Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) will not seek re-election. The 58-year-old former state trooper served in Congress for 18 years, winning 9 terms, but he has come under fire from the right and left since taking a prominent stand during…

Reducing abortions by expanding health coverage

Last week, Colorado Republicans opposed a bill that would expand health coverage for maternity and contraception partly on the grounds that some contraception terminates pregnancies rather than preventing them. As the Colorado Independent reported, the Republican lawmakers were missing…

Colorado Personhood fails by wide margin to draw requisite number of signatures

The Secretary of State announced Wednesday that Personhood Colorado failed to turn in enough signatures in support of its anti-abortion initiative to place the proposal on the ballot in November. The group has until March 15 to gather roughly…

Struggling ‘personhood’ forces face determined opposition

On Friday, Personhood Colorado turned into the Secretary of State 79,817 signatures in support of its initiative– not even 4,000 more than the 76,047 needed to land its proposed anti-abortion “personhood” proposal on the ballot in November. Thousands of signatures are routinely thrown out in the process of validating initiative petitions. The group’s amendment seeks to grant fertilized human eggs the full spectrum of rights enjoyed by U.S. citizens. The difficulty its sponsors seem to have had gathering support suggests the idea they are promoting is no more attractive now to Coloradans than it was in 2008, when they defeated a similar proposal in a landslide vote.

Randall Terry, 12 followers arrested outside Pepsi Center

The AP is reporting three incidents involving anti-abortion protesters raising cain — one event which resulted in arrests outside the Pepsi Center, a picket of an Emily’s List event and another where Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies responded to heat-stressed individuals on a mesa outside Denver after they unfurled a 666-foot banner on the hillside (seriously, no religious symbolism there).