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This is nuts! Please share with everyone who knows anyone in Colorado. We’ve seen these tactics before in states like Georgia & Alabama. A ban on abortion later in pregnancy is a step to banning abortion outright. Coloradans can stop Prop 115. voteno115.com #NoOn115
The proponents of this initiative have been clear — they want to force a woman to continue a pregnancy with no exceptions for health or individual circumstances — even in cases of rape, risks to the woman’s health, or a lethal fetal diagnosis. #NoOn115
Coloradans have trusted patients, families, and physicians to make these decisions, not politicians. Democrats, Republicans, and unaffiliated voters have repeatedly rejected abortion bans at the ballot in the past. This is a fundamental CO value that crosses party lines. #NoOn115
Did y’all know Colorado has an abortion ban on the ballot with no exceptions for rape/incest, lethal fetal diagnosis, or health of the pregnant person? #NoOn115 voteno115.com 
It’s maybe not setting off alarm bells for some because it’s a ban after 22 weeks. But a ban is a ban! It’s a judgment from anti-abortion politicians, it’s stigmatizing, and it’s DANGEROUS! #NoOn115
The anti-abortion movement thinks it has a winner in bans after 22 weeks, as we’ve seen from the lies they can’t stop telling about abortion “UP UNTIL BIRTH" (which is not a THING!) #NoOn115 voteno115.com/about-the-camp…
This November, Coloradans will vote on Proposition 115. This ban would criminalize abortion after 22 weeks. #NoOn115
This intentionally confusing ban has NO exceptions for a pregnant person’s health. #NoOn115
Every pregnancy is unique--but Prop 115 leaves no room for these complexities. #NoOn115
I want to elevate—and add to—this thread by @RHAVote's experience having a later abortion in Colorado and why Colorado voters should vote #NoOn115 which would create more barriers to patients who need later abortions and doctors who provide them.
The text of this ballot measure is very clear: abortion would only be allowed after 22 weeks if it were “immediately required” to save the life of the pregnant person.
That is not the same as a health exception. Medicine is rarely black & white—there’s a lot of grey.
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That is not the same as a health exception. Medicine is rarely black & white—there’s a lot of grey.
#NoOn115
Sometimes people get very sick in pregnancy with high blood pressure and seizures, or they have prolonged bleeding from a placenta covering the cervix.
As an obstetrician, am I certain the patient will die without intervention? No.
Am I certain their health will be harmed? Yes.
As an obstetrician, am I certain the patient will die without intervention? No.
Am I certain their health will be harmed? Yes.
“Who can’t get an abortion by 22 wks?!” is a question we’re hearing a lot as we ask CO to vote #NoOn115 which would ban abortion care at that point in pregnancy. First, this is a real question for many people and one I used to ask before I needed one myself. But we know why: 🧵
First it’s important to acknowledge that the question presumes we all live in equitable environments and we simply do not. And covid is really laying that bare for us, right? The truth is millions in America are without essentials like food, stable shelter and basic healthcare.
Abortion seekers requiring care later in pregnancy are among the most underserved in our communities. Bans on abortion that suppose we can all just easily access healthcare - especially abortion care - at any time is typical bootstrap rhetoric and it is gaslighting.
