“With broken hearts, we chose to end our pregnancy at 19 weeks … what has struck me in the years since the fall of Roe v. Wade is what I didn’t have to experience during those dark days…
Supporters of Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom gather outside the office of the Colorado Secretary of State and walk in a line to deliver boxes filled with well over 200,000 voter signatures to put abortion rights on the Nov. 2024 Colorado ballot on April 18, 2024 in Denver. When the news broke that the U.S. Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, I was sitting in a nursery rocking chair, holding my newborn son.
More than 18 weeks into my first and very wanted pregnancy with a baby girl, my water broke. I felt a pop while sitting at my desk at work on a Monday afternoon and rushed to the hospital, desperate for someone to tell me that my baby and I could still be OK. For our family, the choice was clear. With broken hearts, we chose to end our pregnancy at 19 weeks and say goodbye to our baby in the way that was right for us.
Since the Dobbs decision, I’ve heard the stories of women forced to flee their home states for abortion care, boarding planes while fearing they could go into labor or develop a life-threatening infection at any moment. Stories of women having to spend their precious last hours with their babies desperately planning travel and child care logistics instead of focusing on feeling their babies’ kicks for the last time.
We must vote “yes” on Amendment 79 so that the compassionate health care I was able to access will be secure and out of the reach of politicians because it is guaranteed in the Colorado Constitution.I-70 reopened through Glenwood Canyon following semitruck rollover
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