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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.
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Every dollar matters.
Every vote counts.
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Since November 2006 – when Colorado voters elected a prevention-oriented governor and overwhelming pro-choice majorities to both chambers of the state Legislature -- the General Assembly has considered more than 20 bills affecting the reproductive health and rights of Colorado women and their families.
If anti-choice politicians are elected to office in 2010, Colorado women risk losing a number of important rights when these anti-choice extremists work to undo the critical gains made in recent years.
Anti-choice extremists could repeal the following policies:
- All health insurance plans must cover birth control, prenatal and delivery costs for policies issued in the individual and small-group markets (effective 1/1/2011)
- Insurance companies cannot charge women more than men for health insurance that includes the exact same benefits (effective 1/1/2011)
- It's illegal to shackle pregnant inmates when they're in labor
- Sexual assault survivors have the right to receive information about emergency contraception to prevent pregnancy following their attack
- Sex education courses must be age-appropriate, comprehensive, medically and scientifically accurate and discuss the health benefits of contraception
- More working families can access preventive family-planning programs through the Medicaid Family Planning Waiver to prevent unintended pregnancy and reduce the need for abortion
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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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