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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.

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.

‘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.

Catholic politics, power dynamics highlighted in Colorado funding flap

By | 04.18.12 | 1:01 pm

The political tug-of-war waging within the U.S. Catholic Church made headlines in Colorado this month when the Church’s Campaign for Human Development threatened to pull tens of thousands of dollars in support from Durango-based immigrant-rights group Compañeros.

An Obama campaign top priority: Chasing Colorado youth vote

By | 04.03.12 | 5:30 am

BOULDER– National leaders of the Obama reelection campaign recently told students gathered on the University of Colorado campus here that winning swing-state Colorado is among the highest priorities for the campaign and that youth voters are the linchpin in this year’s victory strategy.

DeGette joins critics blasting Romney for attack on Planned Parenthood

By | 03.14.12 | 2:24 pm

Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette, head of the congressional pro-choice caucus, joined with Democrats around the country in criticizing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for vowing to “get rid” of funding for Planned Parenthood if he were elected in November.

Group pushes anti-abortion laws into state legislatures nationwide

By | 03.01.12 | 5:08 am

The national anti-abortion-rights group behind Virginia’s controversial ultrasound bill last week released seven new bills it plans to push through state legislatures this year.

Crisis pregnancy centers push anti-abortion agenda nationally

By | 02.23.12 | 5:06 am

For the average crisis pregnancy center, each abortion stopped is counted as a victory in what is often described, by both sides of the abortion-rights debate, as a war. And while unhappily pregnant women tend to seek out abortion clinics, crisis pregnancy centers tend to seek out those unhappily pregnant women.

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