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BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado Democrats on March 9 unveiled a trio of bills aimed at ensuring abortion and gendera rming care in Colorado isn’t subject to legal action initiated in other states, as well as reshaping health insurance regulations around the procedures and prohibiting deceptive advertising by anti-abortion pregnancy centers. e measures, which haven’t been introduced yet, come a year after the legislature passed a bill enshrining abortion access in state law. at happened just before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling protecting the right to an abortion without excessive government restriction.

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Since Roe was overturned, conservative areas of the country have passed abortion restrictions, leading to an in ux of people coming to Colorado to terminate their pregnancies. Colorado has almost no abortion restrictions. Republican state legislatures and governors have also begun enacting laws limiting transgender care for young people. Republicans are likely to ght the Colorado bills, but they are in the minority in the legislature and have few tools to stop the policy changes.

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