The initiative in Colorado, Amendment 79, asks voters to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution.
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"We need to be bold and go as far as we can to ensure that things like this can't get stripped depending on who's in office," said Dusti Gurule, co-chair of the pro-Amendment 79 campaign, Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom, during Wednesday's conference."Even though folks think that Colorado and other states are blue or we have a lot of these things in place already, threats are always there.
"It goes far beyond what Roe v. Wade authorized, banning any reasonable limits," says the Pro Life Colorado Action Fund'sadvocating against the measure."Colorado already has some of the strongest protections for abortion rights of any state in the nation. ... It is too extreme.""It was after that we decided that we were going to be proactive," Gurule said."None of this work is easy.
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