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50 pro-choice seats are at-risk in our State Legislature.
An amendment to ban abortion is on the ballot in Colorado.
2010 is a critical election year for reproductive rights.
Every volunteer makes a difference.
Every dollar matters.
Every vote counts.
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What's at Stake? |
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Policies at Risk • Pro-Choice Candidates • Ballot Initiatives
- Anti-choice legislative candidates who consider birth control morally repugnant and would oppose abortion at every opportunity
- The governor's seat: Dan Maes & Tom Tancredo oppose abortion and support Amendment 62
- Amendment 62, the “Definition of Person” amendment, would establish legal rights for all fertilized eggs – which could ban all abortion in Colorado, including for victims of rape or incest or when a woman’s life is at risk
- Amendments 60 & 61 and Proposition 101 could eliminate all public funding for programs that provide critical preventive reproductive health care, including: comprehensive sex education; screening for sexually transmitted infections; contraceptive counseling, drugs, devices and procedures; insurance for prenatal care and delivery costs; and teen pregnancy-prevention programs
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Top Reasons to Vote Pro-choice in 2010 |
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Our elected officials must represent OUR values. Being pro-choice is a mainstream Colorado value. We need elected officials who respect our personal freedoms and right to privacy.
We must ensure that our state Legislature stays pro-choice. Regardless of what happens on the national scene, the pro-active, pro-choice bills that have been passed since 2006 are at risk if anti-choice majorities are elected to Colorado’s state House and state Senate.
78% of Colorado’s counties don't have an abortion provider. We must push for legislation that will increase access to the full range of reproductive health care services, especially in underserved areas.
We must elect pro-choice candidates who will vote for common-sense policies that promote access to the full spectrum of reproductive health care services a woman may need throughout her lifetime. |
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Did You Know?
- Colorado lawmakers have voted on more than 10 bills related to reproductive rights & reproductive health since 2007.
- Legislators have rejected 4 anti-choice bills that would have banned abortion, added onerous burdens to abortion access, imposed the death penalty for abortions, and opened the door to government investigation of sex-ed classes.
- If Roe v. Wade is overturned, safe, legal abortion access depends on laws enacted at the state level.
- It took 5 years – and a new governor – to pass a law making sure sexual assault survivors received information about how to prevent unintended pregnancy after the assault.
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