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Tag: Contraception
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...
GOP blocks birth-control funding for low-income women
A bill to offer low-income women free long-acting reversible birth control failed on party lines in the Republican-controlled Senate kill committee, despite bipartisan efforts to...
IUD funding slashed from state budget, House considers new approach
The bipartisan battle to secure $5 million to fund a Colorado program that offers teens long-acting reversible birth control hit another snag at the...
#Coleg Notebook: Wins under the Gold Dome for IUDs and...
Colorado's much-lauded 40 percent reduction in teen pregnancy rates has shifted the debate over lady parts at the Capitol, in what seems a productive...
Udall campaign marks sixth month since Gardner’s stand on personhood went...
U.S. Sen. Mark Udall's re-election campaign is celebrating the six-month mark of Republican challenger Congressman Cory Gardner's wobbly stance on the anti-abortion personhood movement.
A...
Women for Udall talk priorities — health care and voter mobilization
A group of female business owners joined Congresswoman Diana DeGette and Planned Parenthood Action Fund President Cecile Richards at local woman-owned restaurant Fire on the Mountain...
Littwin: Gardner in Hobby Lobby land
There seems to be some disagreement about how the Hobby Lobby ruling will play out politically on the national stage. There's no question how it will play out politically in Colorado.
Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision knocks up Colorado politics
Reactions in Colorado were nearly immediate and came from both politicians and advocacy groups, who all see the decision throwing added fuel on the already-hot topic of womens' health in the upcoming election.
Wiretap: Percentage of Americans without health insurance way down
"Thanks Obamacare!" It may remain a political hot potato -- forever -- but the controversial law appears to be doing exactly what it was intended to do.
Littwin: The ‘war on women’ will get hotter
It was no coincidence that the three justices most actively engaged in the Hobby Lobby contraceptive-mandate argument were the three women justices.
It's not just...