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Guest Post: With Kavanaugh nomination, the threat to gut Roe becomes...

One of the defining characteristics of Colorado is that we are a pro-choice state, and have been since we became the first state to...

Democrats kill bill requiring providers to show fetus ultrasound to abortion...

Democrats on Thursday blocked a bill that would have required doctors to offer women seeking an abortion an ultrasound of the fetus 24 hours...

Wiretap: To the shock of no one, the Obamacare compromise fix...

Remember that oh-so-promising health care compromise? Well, Trump has changed his mind on it again. Some Republicans who were ready to support it now...

Anti-abortion bill killed in GOP-controlled Senate

It’s not a good day when you’re a conservative Republican and can’t even get your anti-abortion bill out of the Republican-controlled Senate. But that’s what...

Republicans on State Affairs do about-face, pass contraception bill

Up was down and right was left Wednesday at the state Capitol. You might think that if you witnessed the vote Wednesday afternoon in the...

After marathon hearings, anti-abortion bills fail on party-line vote

Update: In a hearing that went 11 hours and concluded at 12:30 a.m. Friday morning, the House Health, Insurance and Environment Committee voted along 6-5 party-lines...

Abortion politics hits the 2016 U.S. Senate race in Colorado

  Voters still reeling from TV ad after TV ad about women’s reproductive health issues from the 2014 Colorado U.S. Senate race might be sensing a...

NARAL denounces ColoradoCare, saying it would restrict abortions

Colorado’s leading pro-choice group has come out against Amendment 69, saying the proposed single-payer ColoradoCare system would impede abortion access in the state. "I think...

What did lawmakers do for Jane Coloradan and her family this...

  Hi, I'm Jane. I'm a 34-year-old married mom of two living in a Denver suburb. Like the typical Colorado family, my husband and I...

Wiretap: A hospital forbids a doctor from publicly defending abortion. She...

Gag order A Washington doctor, who charged that her hospital has violated her rights by forbidding her to speak publicly in defense of abortions after...