Happy Friday, law nerds! We’re ending the week with some good news:
This week, Colorado lawmakers expanded access to reproductive health care for survivors of sexual violence and undocumented immigrants.
This week, Colorado lawmakers expanded access to reproductive health care for survivors of sexual violence and undocumented immigrants.
Jared Polis, @GovofCO, signed SB21-142 into law, ensuring that rape survivors who become pregnant can access abortion care anywhere in the state, and undoing a decades-old restriction that required them to travel to a clinic that Medicaid approved of.
“A patient’s income or ZIP code should never determine their access to quality health care...This new law eliminates additional stress, expense, and inequality.” —Dr. Kristina Tocce @PPRockyMountain vice president
Polis also signed a bill ensuring undocumented Coloradans can access affordable and free birth control and other family planning services. Another new law will allow Medicaid recipients in the state to get a year’s worth of birth control at once.
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2021 has been the most volatile year for abortion restrictions in decades. Lawmakers across the country have enacted a whopping 90 restrictions since January.
https://twitter.com/RewireNewsGroup/status/1412779440103436288
Providers and advocates hope lawmakers look to Colorado as an example when it comes to protecting access to reproductive rights—a charge more critical than ever, since the Supreme Court is stacked with conservative judges.
As states protect—or chip away at—abortion access, our legal team will keep an eye on all of it, so keep following us here on Twitter and Instagram @RewireNewsGroup.
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