After more than 39 hours of often tense and emotional debate over three days, Colorado lawmakers passed Democrats’ three priority abortion and gender-affirming-care bills Saturday night.
After more than 29 hours of often tense and emotional debate over three days, Colorado lawmakers passed Democrats’ three priority abortion and gender-affirming-care bills Saturday night.
That means making sure patients and providers are protected, ensuring access and affordability and removing barriers to care because of “biased counseling,” she added. “It was a lot — three bills and many days of debate. But the threats are real, and there is an urgency now due to the landscape.” Abortion and gender-affirming care are foundational issues for both parties, particularly in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision last year reversing abortion rights and the development of anti-abortion and transgender laws that have taken hold across the country. The debate on the package, which stretched across three days beginning late Thursday morning, turned at times from respectful and technical to emotional and super-charged.
Other arguments were more technical: Republican leaders Reps. Mike Lynch and Rose Pugliese told reporters Thursday afternoon that nonpartisan Capitol lawyers had determined SB23-188 — which protects abortion and gender-affirming care — was composed in such a way as to be unconstitutional and would need to be amended significantly.
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