DENVER (KDVR) — Tuesday marks three years since the Dobbs Decision, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. FOX31 has told you about an uptick in people traveling to Colorado for abortion care over the years. We wanted to know if people are still coming. Abortions continued rising in 2024 despite state bans: …
As current and former providers, we are feeling the attacks ourselves, just as we did in those terrible days right after the Dobbs decision. The deliberate trauma hurts everyone.
DENVER — A bill requiring health care facilities across Colorado to provide emergency care to anyone who needs it will soon become law. Democratic Governor Jared Polis recently signed SB25-130.
Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung spent four years in medical school, four years in an OB-GYN residency, and three years in a maternal-fetal medicine fellowship learning how to care for high-risk pregnant patients. In her decade-plus of medical training, she learned that in some cases, the only rational and responsible option for medical intervention is an emergency abortion.
U.S. Sen John Hickenlooper is renewing a call to repeal part of a 19th-century law that conservative activists have used to restrict medication abortion access in cities across the country.
For Immediate Release: July 9, 2025 For More Information: Laura K Chapin Media Communications Director, Cobalt (303) 954-8416 Laura@cobaltadvocates.org Mónica Caballeros Director of Communications, COLOR Monicacaballeros@colorlatina.org Amendment 79 Co-Chairs Statement: Trump Budget Bill Does NOT Affect Amendment 79 Denver – Karen Middleton, President of Cobalt, and Dusti Gurule, President and CEO of COLOR (Colorado …
For Immediate Release: June 4, 2025 For More Information: Laura K Chapin Media Communications Director, Cobalt (303) 954-8416 Laura@cobaltadvocates.org NEW LAW GUARANTEES EMERGENCY ROOM CARE FOR COLORADANS, INCLUDING ABORTION CARE, DESPITE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WITHDRAWING FEDERAL PROTECTIONS Bill Sponsors Weigh In on SB 25-130, Federal Action Denver – Thanks to a new state law passed earlier …
For Immediate Release: May 20, 2025 For More Information: Laura K Chapin Media Communications Director, Cobalt (303) 954-8416 Laura@cobaltadvocates.org COBALT CALLS ON COLORADO’S FEDERAL DELEGATION TO SPEAK UP FOR ADRIANA SMITH, BACK REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM CAUCUS STATEMENT Denver – Cobalt is calling on Colorado’s federal delegation to speak up for Adriana Smith, a brain dead woman …
For Immediate Release: May 14, 2025 For More Information: Laura K Chapin Media Communications Director, Cobalt (303) 954-8416 Laura@cobaltadvocates.org GOVERNOR POLIS SIGNS BILL INTO LAW GUARANTEEING EMERGENCY ROOM CARE FOR COLORADANS, INCLUDING ABORTION CARE Denver – Today, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed SB25-130, Providing Emergency Medical Services into state law. SB 25-130 was sponsored by …
The Colorado legislature is currently weighing a bill that would mandate that hospitals’ emergency departments, which include delivery and labor departments, provide care for patients regardless of their ability to pay or other qualities.