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June 14, 2016 03:28 PM UTC

Sponsor an Anti-Choice Bill, and Get a Zero on NARAL's Scorecard

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  • by: Jason Salzman

Most groups issue legislative scorecards based on averaging a legislator’s votes on specific bills. For its 2016 scorecared, NARL Pro-Choice Colorado is setting the bar higher with a new “zero tolerance policy,” according to a news release:

“Any legislator who sponsors anti-choice legislation has and will from this point forward receive a Zero rating  from NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado.

But we also know defeating bad bills isn’t enough. Seven in 10 Americans support the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision affirming abortion as a private matter, and that number is even higher in Colorado. Strong majorities in our state support the right to safe and legal abortion and have, repeatedly,  proven that at the ballot box by defeating personhood and electing pro-choice legislators.

Our laws need to better reflect the will of the people in that majority. We need to not just defeat anti-women’s health care bills, we can and must have our right to reproductive freedom reflected in our state laws. And as we look to the future in Colorado, NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado will be on the front lines of that pro-active, pro-choice effort.”

See the scorecard here, which spotlights seven Democratic state representatives who, according NARAL, “all served on the House Health, Insurance and Environment Committee and voted down every anti-women’s health bill that came before the Committee.”

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  1. That's a useful tool. And the new generation of voters should take note. They are far more nuanced than their legislators. Jerry Sonnenberg and Perry Buck, for example, should know that their constituents, while perhaps morally not in favor of abortion for themselves, are also adamantly opposed to making it illegal.

    Sonnenberg and Buck have well-deserved zero ratings from NARAL.  I find it especially ironic that both voted against the Pregnant Worker Fairness Act –  signed into law June 1.  It makes it easier for women who choose to carry their babies to term to keep working, with reasonable accommodations. It would have helped me to stay employed as an electrician when I was carrying my second child. I had asked for an accommodation to not work in toxic environments, e.g. an ink factory.

    Instead, my hours and pay were cut and I had to sue with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission to get them back.

    The anti-choice legislators not only voted against that law, but against HB1002,  Parental Involvement in Child's Academic Activities.. This was a simple bill to allow parents to meet with school personnel during normal school hours, or to take off to attend parent-teacher conferences. It's been postponed indefinitely.

    So, to recap – the anti-choice legislators not only want to make abortion impossible to get in Colorado, but they want to drastically restrict the abilities of parents to work and support their families, and to attend normal school activities which benefit their students.

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