{"id":287319,"date":"2023-03-15T12:29:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T17:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=287319"},"modified":"2023-03-14T22:57:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T03:57:02","slug":"colorado-legislative-package-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/colorado-legislative-package-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado lawmakers introduce bills to expand abortion, trample conscience rights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pro-abortion legislators in Colorado have introduced a package of three bills, each dedicated to protecting abortion. In addition to eliminating women’s ability to make fully informed choices, the package will allow for taxpayer funding of abortion and the ability of minors to access birth control and abortion. It also threatens the First Amendment rights of pro-life medical professionals.<\/p>\n

Abortion pill reversal<\/strong><\/p>\n

SB23-190<\/a> attempts to ban what it defines as “deceptive” advertising by pregnancy resource centers and to prohibit their ability to promote or prescribe abortion pill reversal (APR), which consists of administering the hormone progesterone to counteract the effects of the abortion pill mifepristone. \u201cThey advertise in languages other than English specifically to target immigrant communities that already have folks who already have a harder time accessing health care services and anti-abortion centers,\u201d Rep. Elisabeth Epps told Denver 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rep. Janice Marchman added, \u201cThey peddle biased and inaccurate information about abortion care and contraceptives. And they take advantage of people during some of their most vulnerable moments. Simply put, they lie.”<\/p>\n

Epps, in an interview with Colorado Public Radio<\/a>, further claimed of APR, \u201cThis practice is not only dangerous and unregulated, but evidence shows that these pills cannot even reverse an abortion.”<\/p>\n

Abortion pill reversal is not a lie<\/a>, nor is it dangerous. It works by flooding the woman’s body with progesterone, the pregnancy hormone that sustains the embryo’s life, in an effort to offset mifepristone, the first drug of the abortion pill regimen, which blocks naturally-occurring progesterone in the mother’s body. The same hormone has been widely used<\/a> to prevent miscarriage<\/a>\u00a0safely for decades.<\/p>\n

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