Posted on 11/05/2020 6:31:22 PM PST by marshmallow
CNA Staff, Nov 3, 2020 / 09:47 pm MT (CNA).- Voters in Colorado rejected a ballot measure that would have banned abortion in the state after 22 weeks of pregnancy, except in cases where a mother’s life is threatened.
Proposition 115 failed 59%-41%, with 81.5% of precincts reporting, according to the Associated Press.
If the ballot measure had passed, doctors would have faced a three-year license suspension for performing or attempting to perform an abortion of an unborn child beyond 22 weeks of gestation. Women would not have been charged for seeking or obtaining an illegal abortion.
Colorado has no laws regulating late-term abortion, making it one of just seven states in the country where abortions can take place up until birth. Each year, about 200 to 300 babies are aborted after 21-weeks gestation in the state.
More than 150,000 Coloradans signed a petition to put Proposition 115 on the ballot. Kristen Day, president of the Democrats for Life of America, told CNA that 19,000 Democrats signed the petition.
“Even Democrats oppose late-term abortion. 82% of Democrats and 77% of independents and 94% of Republicans oppose third trimester abortions,” she said. “It's a very mainstream position.”
Opponents of the measure had a significant cash advantage in the weeks before the election.
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What kind of people are they? May they get the government they deserve.
Surreal watching America swirl down the toilet bowl.
This evening I come to the conclusion we now outnumber them!
They had to resort to MASSIVE fraud for days trying to beat us. Remember all the Rallys? All the diverse coming together for ONE NATION, UNDER GOD? WE OUTNUMBER THEM now.
Sure, there are places they still have a large stronghold. But their percentage is SHRINKING there.
Be of good Faith. We are just beginning to FIGHT!
Coloradans were always more libertarian/independent than they were conservative.
When the Californians moved in they ran roughshod over the Coloradans because the Coloradans didn't really band together. Their independence died one Coloradan at a time on the separate hills upon which each stood.
Hey I voted for the amendment so don’t lump me in your blanket statement getting the government we deserve. I hate the place Colorado has become. I live in a redder than red area about as far away from the Denver Boulder Front Range heathens as you can get and still have the green mountain plates
I am sure there are millions of fine people who live in the State.
From all I have ever seen from people from Colorado, abortion should be allowed up to age 110.
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