For Immediate Release:
September 18, 2024

For More Information:
Laura K Chapin
Media Communications Director, Cobalt
(303) 954-8416
Laura@cobaltadvocates.org

ANTI-ABORTION EXTREMISTS IN PUEBLO POISED TO ATTEMPT ANOTHER ABORTION BAN

Pueblo – Just as they did in 2022, anti-abortion extremists in Pueblo are poised to attempt another municipal abortion ban in Pueblo. The 2022 effort was backed by a right-wing group, Forging Pueblo. At Monday night’s Pueblo City Council meeting, Councillor Regina Maestri said she was possibly going to introduce a resolution going after a women’s health clinic in Pueblo. That could happen as soon as the next City Council work session on September 23 at 5:30.

According to Cobalt’s Political and Organizing Director Kiera Hatton Sena, who lives in Pueblo County, “The people of our community do not support this and deserve better than a rogue City Council member with her own agenda. Health care access is a continual problem in southern Colorado and attempting to close down a women’s health care clinic is the opposite of what we need. And this is exactly why we need to pass Amendment 79 and put abortion rights in the state Constitution – so that individual politicians spreading falsehoods stop interfering with our rights and stop putting themselves in between patients and medical providers.”

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Cobalt is a grassroots, statewide Colorado organization that advances abortion access and reproductive rights. Our organization began in 1967 when Colorado became the first state to allow safe, legal abortion. Cobalt believes nothing should stand between you and your health decisions, which is why we are dedicated to fighting for systems, structures and policies that protect reproductive rights and guarantee comprehensive, universal access to reproductive healthcare, including abortion.