Cobalt opposes anti-abortion ballot measures every time they are attempted.

Colorado voters defeated fetal personhood amendments, which are total abortion bans, by 46% (Amendment 48) in 2008, by 41% (Amendment 62) in 2010, and by 30% (Amendment 67) in 2014. In 2020, Colorado voters defeated Proposition 115, a 22-week abortion ban, by 18%, with more votes cast opposing it than President Biden received on the same ballot.

In 2024, Cobalt helped pass Amendment 79—a constitutional amendment to protect abortion from government interference, thus removing our state’s discriminatory ban on abortion being a covered service under state healthcare insurance plans. 

In 2023, Cobalt joined the Colorado Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice Coalition to pass the Safe Access to Protected Health Care (SAPHC) package of three bills: Senate Bills 23-188, 189, and 190. Cobalt led the passage of SB 23-188, the interstate shield law for abortion, contraception, and gender-affirming care that protected Colorado’s patients, providers, and assistors of legally-protected healthcare against criminal, civil, privacy, and professional threats from other states. Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains led on SB 23-189, which mandated commercial insurance companies cover abortion and STI screenings, prevention, and treatments without any co-pays, co-deductibles, co-insurance, or step therapy. COLOR and New Era Colorado led on SB 23-190 that made it a deceptive trade practice for anti-abortion counseling centers to advertise abortion services that they do not actually provide. 

In 2022, Cobalt and COLOR led the passage of House Bill 22-1279, the Reproductive Health Equity Act (RHEA) that enshrined the legal right to abortion into Colorado state law, in anticipation of the loss of the national right to abortion guaranteed by the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade.