{"id":265031,"date":"2022-03-24T16:31:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T21:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=265031"},"modified":"2022-03-24T14:45:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T19:45:09","slug":"colorado-senate-abortion-limits-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/colorado-senate-abortion-limits-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Senate approves abortion bill without limits, governor expected to sign"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Following a 13-hour debate, the Colorado Senate on Wednesday passed<\/a> an extreme abortion bill that would claim abortion as a fundamental right and deny any rights to preborn human beings.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a dark day for the Colorado Democrat Party and any individual who respects the sanctity of life,\u201d said Colorado GOP Chairwoman Kristi Burton Brown. \u201cIf Jared Polis decides to sign this extreme abortion bill, he will put Colorado\u2019s abortion laws on par with China and North Korea. The Democrats have chosen to spend weeks of this session pushing a barbaric abortion bill, instead of fighting for issues that would help Colorado families. Republicans know every child deserves to be protected in love and in law. We will never stop standing up for life.\u201d<\/p>\n

HB22-1279<\/a>, or the Reproductive Health Equity Act, passed the Senate in a 20-15 vote and will now head to the desk of Gov. Jared Polis, who is expected to sign it. It strips every preborn human being at any point in pregnancy of their human rights, stating that a human being within the womb “does not have independent or derivative rights under the laws of the state.”<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Colorado lawmakers attempting to codify abortion into state constitution<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It goes on to state:<\/p>\n

The bill prohibits state and local public entities from:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n