Left-wing activists in Colorado say they have collected enough signatures to put abortion on the ballot in November.
“Coloradans protect reproductive freedom Volunteers collected more than 225,000 signatures and said they also met the district’s requirements,” CBS News report.
For the measure to appear on the ballot, petitioners must collect 124,238 signatures from voters, which must include 2 percent of the total number of registered voters in each of Colorado’s 35 Senate districts. not. according to To the Secretary of State’s office. The measure would need support from 55% of voters to pass.
Abortion is currently legal in Colorado. The proposed constitutional amendment would ultimately enshrine an unrestricted right to abortion into the state constitution, and would also invalidate a 1984 law that prohibited health insurance coverage of abortions for public employees and those enrolled in public health insurance. That’s what you do.
“The right to abortion is hereby recognized. Governments shall not deny, obstruct, or discriminate against the exercise of that right, including by prohibiting health insurance coverage of abortion,” the proposed measure states. read.
The announcement comes a week after the Florida Supreme Court allowed a similar effort to enshrine abortion in the state constitution to move forward. Activists in Arizona also announced they had collected enough signatures to put abortion on the ballot in November.
The announcement comes as the Arizona Supreme Court announced a ruling upholding an 1864 law that bans nearly all abortions, making the 15-week abortion limit passed in March 2022 “enforceable.” This was done in response to a ruling that
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Jess Grennan, campaign director for Coloradans for Reproductive Freedom, said in a statement that the Arizona Supreme Court’s decision “makes every state vulnerable without passing a constitutional guarantee of the right to abortion.” “We have finally made it clear that we are and will continue to be vulnerable.”
“Ballot measures like Prop. 89 are our first line of defense against government overreach and our best means of protecting the freedom to make personal, private health care decisions, and that right should never be compromised. Health insurance should not depend on the source or position, because a right without access is a right in name only,” Grennan argued.
There is another… Ballot Initiative Initiatives Colorado is seeking an amendment to define children as “any person.” “A human being is a living human being from the moment when human life begins at biological conception, through all stages of biological development, until the child is released as an adult,” including abortion. , prohibits anyone from harming a child at any stage of development.
St. Paul, Minnesota, Annual Pro-Life Rally: 2023 MCCL March for Life recognizes that unborn children and their mothers deserve better than unlimited abortion, and will cease operations until all innocent human beings are protected. He is taking advantage of the opportunity to tell elected officials that there is nothing wrong with that. (Michael Silk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Colorado is one of at least a dozen states where pro-abortion activists are active. work Codifying the right to kill the unborn child.
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Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her at @thekat_Hamilton.
