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Personhood coalition launches petition drive at Colorado Planned Parenthood...
The Colorado Personhood Coalition on Thursday hosted rallies outside Planned Parenthood clinics in Denver and Colorado Springs to launch the coalition’s drive to gather signatures for its anti-abortion...
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Abortion rights under attack coast to coast
Guttmacher Institute, Winter 2012, Volume 15, Number 1 A new report from the Guttmacher Institute shows that, in the past decade, a substantial number of states have shifted from having only a...
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Colorado ‘religious freedom’ initiative moves step closer to 2012 ballot
The Colorado Secretary of State’s title board on Wednesday approved language for a “religious freedom” ballot initiative submitted last month by Colorado Springs-based evangelical organization Focus on...
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‘No Personhood’ Colorado campaign cautions against big government
DENVER– A rally hosted here Thursday on the steps of the capitol by this year’s “No Personhood Campaign” featured speakers who decried government intervention into citizens’ private lives and...
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Coerced-abortion laws part of new pro-life strategy
Anti-abortion protest (Flickr/Anna Levinzon) On a Friday morning in September 2005, 22-year-old Brittany Wilson sat in a Planned Parenthood clinic a mile away from her home in Sioux Falls, S.D., and...
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Personhood Colorado not taking no for an answer
Jennifer Mason, spokeswoman for Personhood Colorado, told the Colorado Independent she believes it’s not too late for her group to land its anti-abortion initiative on the ballot in Colorado this year....
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Anti-abortion group sues over denial of federal funding
At the intersection of Church and State streets in Salem, Ore.; via Shutterstock. Should taxpayer funds be used to help a “Christ centered ministry” buy and renovate a building in which it will offer...
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Weld County Vote Against Emergency Contraception Leaves Patients Looking...
A controversial and unreported move by the Board of Weld County Commissioners to stop dispensing emergency contraception has forced low-income county health department patients to seek the drugs at the...
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In Malpractice Case, Catholic Hospital Argues Fetuses Aren’t People
Lori Stodghill was 31-years old, seven-months pregnant with twin boys and feeling sick when she arrived at St. Thomas More hospital in Cañon City on New Year’s Day 2006. She was vomiting and short of...
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Conservative Rep. Stephens Supports ‘Abortion Pill’ in Instances of Rape, Incest
Rep. Amy Stephens — a Colorado Springs Republican who once worked for evangelical powerhouse organization Focus on the Family — argued Tuesday against an anti-abortion proposal that would have made...
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Supreme Court Declines Denver Abortion-Protest Case, Handing Win to the Offended
In the battle between the right to offend with free expression and the right to not be offended by free expression, the U.S. Supreme Court this week handed a win to Americans who don’t want to be...
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Republican Recall Candidates Hit with Abortion Politics Mailers
Campaign mailers underlining the anti-abortion views of Republican state senate candidates Bernie Herpin and George Rivera reportedly landed in southern Front Range voter mailboxes over the last two...
View ArticleC’mon already! The Brady Amendment is just personhood
What do you get when you combine the claim of protecting women, a vague ballot initiative concerning “unborn human beings,” and an email with the subject line, “Praise God! 139,650 Signatures Submitted...
View ArticleDurango doctor: Anti-abortion hospital intervening in treatment decisions
A doctor at Catholic-run Mercy Regional Medical Center in Durango says Mercy administration forbids doctors from discussing abortion as a treatment, even with women who could die as a result of...
View ArticleLittwin: Republicans deal out a hand of overreach poker at the capitol
Ask any Colorado Republican about the upcoming election season and you can expect a wide smile. And why not? According the polls, John Hickenlooper suddenly seems vulnerable. The Democrats are down...
View ArticleState regulators won’t press abortion case against Catholic hospital in Durango
The Colorado Department of Health will not act on a complaint filed by a doctor against Catholic hospital administrators in Durango whom he said blocked him from speaking with patients about abortion...
View ArticleWiretap: Contraception still works better than state-ordered medical probe
Abortion rates have fallen, and you’d think this would make the anti-abortion, right-to-life groups happy with the numbers. But, of course, they’re not. That may be because the research suggests that...
View ArticleIn Senate run, Gardner may be hard-pressed to sell far-right record
News broke Wednesday that Colorado Congressman Cory Gardner will give up his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives and run to replace Mark Udall in the U.S. Senate. The way the news came — in a...
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Wiretap: Abortion clinics all gone in South Texas Rio Grande Valley
The last two abortion clinics in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas, the poorest part of the state, closed Thursday. Between the two, they served 3,000 people annually. The closings came after...
View ArticleWiretap: Hobby Lobby tea leaves; Obamacare’s millions
As always, the big cases come down to one justice, Anthony Kennedy, who seems to be the deciding vote in the Hobby Lobby/Conestoga Wood case, in which it will be decided whether corporations are not...
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