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

By | 03.04.10 | 3:44 pm

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…

McCann puts teeth back into health insurance maternity bill

By | 02.10.10 | 9:59 am

A House bill that would require health insurers in Colorado to provide at least one policy that covers maternity care is being amended to make it stronger. The bill’s sponsors softened the original language last week in committee…

The Scott Roeder trial: Murder on the inside; abortion on the outside

By | 01.26.10 | 9:27 am

The trial of Scott Roeder, the anti-abortion activist who murdered Dr. George Tiller is underway this week at the the Sedgwick County Courthouse in Wichita, Kansas. Reporters are sending out real time dispatches on Twitter. At blogsite RH Reality…

Focus on the Family’s ‘Truth Project’ used to retrain Christians at Iowa capitol

By | 01.25.10 | 11:27 am

A 12-part Christian education series authored and promoted by Colorado-based Focus on the Family has been circulating around Iowa for the past few years. The program has been screened and discussed in local churches and private homes, but starting Monday the series will have its first screening in the state Capitol.

DeGette, Senate majority leader team up to reduce unintended pregnancies, abortions

By | 01.13.09 | 5:56 pm

Following on U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette’s push to repeal the controversial healthcare worker “conscience clause” rule being rushed through by the Bush Administration, the Denver Democrat is pairing up with a big political gun and abortion foe, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), to promote women’s reproductive care in a rare common ground approach.

Origins of Personhood: Using ‘States Rights’ to Restrict Abortion

By | 05.14.08 | 11:41 am

The first in a series of reports exploring the ramifications of this controversial state ballot measure.

Hard-line, socially conservative activists are gearing up to enact state laws to restrict abortion since President Bush and Congress have all but abandoned

Tweeting the ‘Egg as a Person’ Petition Press Conference

By | 05.13.08 | 2:31 pm

Join Colorado Confidential as we post live updates called “tweets” via the microblogging tool, Twitter.com, from the Human Life Amendment press conference at the Knights of Columbus Hall in downtown Denver.

Live Q&A with Diana DeGette on Stem Cell Bill

By | 05.09.08 | 11:57 am

Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-Denver) joined us today for a live 30-minute Q&A with Colorado Confidential readers. Rep. DeGette responded to your questions on the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, her third attempt to pass this landmark

War of Eggs and Politics Goes Underground for Schaffer, Abortion Foes

By | 04.25.08 | 6:32 pm

Hard-line anti-abortion forces in Colorado say they are backing off their fiery criticism of conservative U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer for not supporting a controversial state ballot measure, according to press accounts this week. Really — or are they simply

Antiabortion Ballot Proponents Call Out Conservative Wimps

By | 04.15.08 | 6:10 pm

Proponents of the controversial “egg as a person” initiative have just one month left to submit petitions to the Colorado secretary of state to certify the measure for the Nov. 4 ballot. Now, in the frenzy of the signature-gathering push

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