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Week of May 12, 2022
JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO
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VOLUME 38 | ISSUE 42
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains: ‘You couldn’t create a more terrifying scenario’ Region’s leading abortion provider gearing up for influx of patients following Roe v. Wade leak BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Vintage trailers make the perfect pop-up for many vendors at ‘A Paris Street Market.’
PHOTOS BY BOB WOOLEY
A Paris Street Market draws happy antique hunters Season opener a blustery affair BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
“A Paris Street Market” got underway May 7 at Aspen Grove . The annual antique bazaar operates on the first and third Saturday from May through October. Billed as an open-air, vintage antique market, shoppers can stroll through aisles of goods, SEE MARKET, P4
Vicki Cowart saw this coming. The chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains has been working to get her organization ready for what she calls “our terrible forecast” — the leaked Supreme Court decision indicating that Roe v Wade will be overturned. PPRM, the region’s largest abortion provider, with locations in Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada, finds itself at the center of a nationwide fight for reproductive rights. As neighboring states “go dark” on abortions, Colorado has become a place of refuge for those seeking an abortion, signing into law protections for the reproductive health care that safeguards a person’s right to an abortion. For PPRM, that means a huge influx in out-of-state patients. Health centers have already experienced an uptick in patients since the Texas abortion ban that was signed into law in September 2021, and now must prepare for that situation to extend to other bordering states. “Twenty-six million patients are going to live in a state that does not have abortion,” Cowart said in a September 2021 interview with Colorado Community Media. “That’s our terrible forecast after the Supreme Court does what we expect it to do.” A day after the court’s decision was leaked, a PPRM health center assistant
You never know what you might find in the confines of the Aspen Grove parking lot.
INSIDE: VOICES: PAGE 14 | LIFE: PAGE 16 | CALENDAR: PAGE 19 | SPORTS: PAGE 22
CHOREOGRAPHED COMEBACK Ballet and opera look to begin anew post-COVID
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SEE ROE V. WADE, P2