Lawmakers introduced they are going to crew as much as supply a Reproductive Well being Fairness Act within the 2022 legislative session.
DENVER — The prospect that the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court docket will overturn Roe v. Wade is pushing Colorado’s Democratic girls legislators to behave, lengthy earlier than a choice from the courtroom is probably going.
The nation’s highest courtroom is reviewing Dobbs v. Jackson Girls’s Well being Group, a 2018 Mississippi regulation that bans abortions after 15 weeks. Justices heard two hours of oral arguments Wednesday.
Three Democratic lawmakers — Sen. Julie Gonzales of Denver, Rep. Meg Froelich of Greenwood Village and Home Majority Chief Daneya Esgar of Pueblo — introduced Wednesday they are going to crew as much as supply a Reproductive Well being Fairness Act within the 2022 legislative session that begins on Jan. 12.
The act can be supported by the Colorado Group for Latina Alternative and Reproductive Rights (COLOR), and COBALT, which additionally backs abortion rights.
Froelich informed Colorado Politics the invoice would guarantee entry to abortion and contraceptives and reply “the hue and cry, post-Texas and with the added zest from yesterday’s Supreme Court docket oral arguments, which made us all take a second.”
