The Women's Lobby of Colorado News

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Colorado is one of two states with state legislatures whose majority is made up of women. 51 out of Colorado's legislators! This includes Colorado's newest Speaker Julie McCluskie of Summit County and Majority Leader Monica Duran of Lakewood!

Read more here from the CPR: https://www.cpr.org/2022/11/12/colorado-new-democratic-leaders-diverse-women/

Picture:  Olivia Sun, The Colorado Sun 

Women's Lobby of Colorado supported and is extremely relieved the Colorado legislature passed legislation to protect abortion care in our state. We know access to abortion care, along with reproductive health care and education, and economic equity, are vital to women's lives and futures and we will always work hard to protect them. 

" The decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturns a half century of precedent set by Roe v. Wade and redefines the reproductive rights of pregnant people across the country. Abortion access will now be decided at a state level, rather than being protected as a constitutional right. 

Thirteen states, including Texas, Utah and Wyoming, have trigger laws on the books, which make abortion illegal in the event that Roe is overturned. Those will now take effect.

Until this year, Colorado law did not say anything about abortion — meaning it would have remained legal without Roe simply because there was no law banning it. But during the most recent legislative session, Democrats rallied to pass the Reproductive Health Equity Act along party lines. Gov. Jared Polis signed it in April."

Read more from CPR here: https://www.cpr.org/2022/06/24/roe-v-wade-has-been-overturned-colorado-will-now-be-one-of-few-places-in-the-west-where-abortion-access-is-the-law/

Picture from  Hart Van Denburg/CPR News