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September 23, 2014 11:30 AM UTC

No Means No: Fight Colorado's Amendment 67

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  • by: ProgressNow Colorado

(Promoted by Colorado Pols)

 

All across the country, women are fighting for control of their own bodies, to make their own choices. Access to birth control, safe, legal abortion options, the ability to decide when, and if, to have children—these rights seem to be under constant attack.

Nowhere is the fight fought harder than here in Colorado. Personhood USA, the leading group in the country working to ban all abortion by giving rights to a fertilized egg, is based right here in Colorado.

The polling has shown that if Amendment 67 were voted on right now, it would pass and Colorado would face the harshest restrictions on women’s rights in the country.

Personhood USA has gotten more savvy each year they bring their “Personhood” measure forward. They only talk about “protecting the life of a pregnant women”. The ballot language is confusing and misleading and right now it is working. Polling shows Amendment 67 would pass if it were voted on today.

Which means we MUST reach each and every voter in Colorado and educate them about what Amendment 67 would really do. Ban all abortions. Outlaw common forms of birth control. Criminalize women.

"Colorado is ground zero for attacks on women's rights. Every two years we face attempts to take away women's rights," said Amy Runyon-Harms, Executive Director of ProgressNow Colorado Education, speaking for the coalition comprised of ProgressNow Colorado Education, Planned Parenthood Votes Colorado, NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado, and the Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR). The "Personhood" initiative is on the ballot for the third time in eight years and would ban all abortion and many common forms of birth control. These initiatives are sponsored by Personhood USA, which is based in Colorado and works to pass similar laws around the country.

"Colorado has been one of the safest places left in this country for women's health. Colorado voters have said they value women's rights and have voted these proposals down time after time. Amendment 67 would give a fertilized egg more rights than women. And that goes too far," says Karen Middleton, Executive Director of NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado.

"Amendment 67 would create barriers for women to get the health care services they need," says Cathy Alderman, Vice President of Public Affairs for Planned Parenthood Votes Colorado. "In Colorado currently, women do not have to be in fear of being charged with a crime when they are getting life-saving health services. And doctors in Colorado are able to do their jobs: protect women's health. Amendment 67 would reverse that."

We can’t let this happen. We need your money to help.

Your donation will go directly toward reaching targeted voters in Colorado with a creative digital campaign. That the time and effort for that campaign—and the content needed for it—costs money. That’s where you all come in. Anything from $5 to $5,000 helps. We are a scrappy group and we will make the most of it.

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7 thoughts on “No Means No: Fight Colorado’s Amendment 67

  1. Cory "Con Man" Gardner supports Amendment 67 100%, regardless of whatever  transparently phony BS he spews about "rethinking" his position. The only thing to which he and his GOTP party have given any "thought" is how they can best and most effectively bamboozle you into thinking he doesn't support the amendment!

    Don't be fooled, Colorado women. Make no mistake: A vote for Cory Gardner (or Beuaprez, or Coffman) IS A VOTE FOR AMENDMENT 67!

      1. I guess that depends on your definition of "support". If you mean, is Gardner publicly in favor of Amendment 67, the answer is NO. If however you mean, is Gardner still a believer and supporter of ensuring that fetuses have rights, still expressing such support in statements while continuing to sponsor the Federal equivalent to Amendment 67, then the answer is YES.

        Gardner has had all the time – and notice – he needed to withdraw his support from the Federal Life at Conception Act if he had truly changed his mind on the issue. He hasn't, and given both that and his post-"conversion" statements that he still believes in the anti-abortion position, the only sane conclusion one can draw is that Gardner would still be a supporter of A.67 if he weren't also running for a very competitive Senate race.

  2. I have to wonder what Progress Now's factors have been smoking? They say 67 would pass if the election was held today, according to their polling. A polling report from 9 News (Denver) last week showed 67 failing 35 to 45%, with 17% undecided (yes, I know, it does not add up totally to 100%). 

    I'm all in favor of 67 going down in flames as it well should. Not only does 67 impose religious ideology on all Colorado citzens, there is also the unethical behavior of personhood backers (read the piece in the Sunday Denver Post (Sept. 21) editorial section). In that point/counterpoint, Jennifer Mason totally ignores that the Legislature fixed the issue of the mother who lost her almost-ready-to-be-born-child in a drunk driving accident. I don't think Progress Now helps things with some of their near-hysterical text (altho I do like the women-in-the-lineup picture).

    Regards,  C.H.B.

     

    1. CHB: The proposal starts…

      Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution protecting pregnant women and unborn children…

      The uninformed who don't know all of the dangerous consequences such a change would set in motion like the way that sounds.

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