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Posts Tagged Reproductive Health

Letter to the Editor

By | 11.23.07 | 11:29 am

Religious groups’ self-claimed monopoly on morality will cost us our liberty.

Colorado Supreme Court Affirms “Egg as a Person” Ballot Wording

By | 11.13.07 | 5:51 pm

In a terse 7-0 decision [PDF] today the Colorado Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the state Title Board’s approval of a 2008 proposed ballot measure to bestow constitutional rights on fertilized human eggs.

State Gives Up on Feds’ Peek-a-boo Game on Abstinence Funding

By | 11.07.07 | 10:19 am

Like tempestuous teenagers, federal lawmakers can’t make up their minds how to fund an abstinence-only program — if at all. So, Colorado took matters into her own hands.

Congress Plays ‘Hide the Salami’ with Abstinence-Only Funding

By | 11.05.07 | 10:22 am

We may want our kids to “just say no,” but when it comes to doling out abstinence-only funding, Congress isn’t abstaining. In the latest federal budget bill, Congress gives it away. Big time.

Colorado HIV Privacy Law at Odds with Feds

By | 10.21.07 | 11:53 pm

A new study reveals that more than two-thirds of states, including Colorado, are not in compliance with new federal guidelines on HIV testing.

Abortion Rates Unaffected by Laws, Abstinence Push

By | 10.14.07 | 3:37 pm

A new international study calls into question the argument that outlawing abortions and focusing on abstinence education deters women from terminating pregnancies. Is the Colorado Supreme Court listening?

Six Babies a Day: Colorado’s Teen Pregnancy Problem

By | 09.30.07 | 8:21 pm

As high school seniors plan for Homecoming dances next month too many of their peers are coming home with something far more unexpected — a baby.

According to a new report by the Colorado Organization on Adolescent

Feds Extend Abstinence-Only Funding

By | 09.28.07 | 12:51 pm

Congress approved another emergency 90-day extention for a contentious grant program to support abstinence-only education ahead of the September 30 fiscal year deadline.

Spared de-funding after an earlier reprieve in June, Title V, Section 510 funding is not without…

Feds Extend Abstinence-Only Funding

By | 09.28.07 | 12:51 pm

Congress approved another emergency 90-day extention for a contentious grant program to support abstinence-only education ahead of the September 30 fiscal year deadline.

Spared de-funding after an earlier reprieve in June, Title V, Section 510 funding is not without…

Feds Extend Abstinence-Only Funding

By | 09.28.07 | 12:50 pm

Congress approved another emergency 90-day extention for a contentious grant program to support abstinence-only education ahead of the September 30 fiscal year deadline.

Spared de-funding after an earlier reprieve in June, Title V, Section 510 funding is not without…