Posted on 05/20/2019 8:11:55 PM PDT by Morgana
Earlier this year, with less fanfare, Colorado lawmakers debated a bill to ban elective abortions that appears more severe than the controversial new limits approved in other states.
The Colorado measure would have allowed an abortion only if the mother’s life was at risk and offered no exceptions for rape or incest — much like the law in Alabama, the nation’s most restrictive.
But here, the legislation went much further to define the start of human life at fertlization — and even allow for the death penalty for a doctor who performs an illegal abortion.
The measure’s failure in the Democratic-led state House reaffirmed that abortion is legal and protected in Colorado — even if laws in other states lead the conservative-minded Supreme Court to reverse Roe v. Wade.
But advocates are still worried. The party-line vote shows access to an abortion its not permanently secure in Colorado, and they want to repeal a major restriction that still exists.
“We are never as far from those other states as we think we are. It’s only one election,” said Karen Middleton, the executive director at NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado, an abortion rights organization. Colorado is a place where women from other states come to receive care
The new law in Alabama, which is a near-total ban, and other laws in Georgia, Ohio and Kentucky that prohibit abortions after six weeks, make Colorado a refuge for women who are seeking the procedure. The state does not impose a waiting period, age restrictions or require ultrasounds before an abortion, like elsewhere.
Moreover, the nonprofit Women’s Freedom Fund, run by NARAL in Colorado, provided financial help to roughly 350 women seeking an abortion so far this year.
(Excerpt) Read more at coloradosun.com ...
They’ll think severe after the Lord God Almighty judges their pro-murder stance of HIS creation!
pretty sad that they label saving lives as ‘more severe’
I am almost certain Colorado was the first state to pass a modern anortion law allowing some to be legal.
Correct. Colorado was first. The legislature didn’t want to handle it, so it passed it to the people by way of a referendum. It won handily.
Thanks. Lived there then. Shocking.
Ah! And so now Colorado is puzzled at a sudden severe “winter storm” in late May which they say is beyond unusual. Hmmm. And Who actually controls storms, rain, snow and such? Think that Person might be trying to tell them something?
Yes indeed.
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