Thread by @KAS_Project

We’re here with Sarah from @elephant_circle at the #pueblo city council meeting & our friends are lined up at the entrance ready to tell their councilor members that #AbortionRightsAreHumanRights & #abortion is something we all need access to! #reproductivehealth #copolitics

We are all about #reproductivehealth #reproductiverights & #reproductivejustice & making sure all zip codes & communities have access to #abortion 📣📣 shout out to @elephant_circle having presence here tonight #copoliticas

#pueblo came out tonight! They are lined up around the block, 2 security guards said they’d never seen public comment line this long before. #voters came to represent #copolitics

We are GOING LIVE over at @KAS_Project IG - join us!!!

We are in the building folks, here for the work session at 5:30pm with City Council members ready to workshop this anti-abortion ordinance. We are pumped that our #advocates on the ground with @CobaltAdvocates are here

We made it inside the work session! #copolitics

Only 20 people can observe easy session to night - 1st is 5:30 workshop session, 2nd is the 7pm public comment

Security guards are escorting people one by one up the elevator - they say that is NOT common #pueblo

Go check out @KAS_Project on IG for a live stream or the city council live stream here:

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If you don’t have windows media player check us out here:
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Come on over! #abortion @CobaltAdvocates

#copolitics they are giving a update on #COVID19 in #pueblo community for now as we get started with the work session. #keepabortionsafe

They are discussing warming shelters due to the cold weather

Stayed tuned to the anti-#abortion ordinance down on the agenda!

Here is the guy folks: the nuts that is trying to get local government to support anti-abortion policies. For example in Lubbock Texas, and other examples he is giving. #copolitics

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He is claiming victory after victory of ordinances that are anti-abortion. He started this in Belview Nebraska - & has worked with an-abortionists a lot. #pueblo Colorado showed up on a GOFUNDME page he found - which he says, is why he choose to work on this is PUEBLO now.
WOW

His name is Mark Lee Dickson w/ Texas Right to Life - he tried to pass a “sanctuary city” ordinance in the City of Edinburg & failed b/c people recognized that abortion is essential health care. #copolitics

He even has a bad attorney with him who is failing at explaining RHEA

He is explaining that this ordinance is not trumping RHEA - but it is hard to follow, b/c he is not making any sense. #copolitics #iykyk 🔥

Next we hear from 3rd guy no their team, who is a young man that isn’t identifying with any org or agency.. but listed a resume of his own.

This guy is trying to address #mailing & #addressing #abortion #medication - Council Members truly look confused. #copolitics

He keeps referring to state statutes & laws, and maybe he should visit the Colorado State Capitol and talk to folks there?

Please send him to our DMs

Thankfully our #leaders down here truly do know how to interpret laws & creating policies that protect Coloradans

The way this guy is talking about #abortion tells us he is NOT a #pueblo #voter 😂

Councilor Dennis Flores is asks who else has passed this ordinance - and her says ‘none’

He continues to ask of the 48 cities - are they in TX?

He answers “Texas & New Mexico”?

#copolitics #LocalGovernment

Councilor Flores continues….

Councilor Flores says that - city council of pueblo can not act as state law - so what standing does this ordinance actually have?

Flores says “this city council shouldn’t have any standing here at all”. #copolitics

Flores is a city councilor at large

Councilor Flores - is getting at the issue #copolitics

He just busted his first lie. Flores read the 216 page Supreme Court decision.

He quotes the constitution. Go in man. 🔥🎤 Again, he is Councilor at Large in #Pueblo

Now Lori Winner - Councilor at Large is also asking this attorney to describe ‘the ordinance and it’s connection to birth control and morning after pill access’

Dickson says, “the term does not include other types of contraception”

Winner follows up… #copolitics

Councilor Winner seems to not be threatened by this particular ordinance. #copolitics

District 11 Councilor - Graham is asking what this is about - cause the Supreme Court asked how the Dobbs decision has to do with state law makers then taking it upon themselves.

#pueblo

We messed up - District 11 Councilor’s name is Larry Atencio!

Councilor Atencio asks if he can be personally sued if he allows for the construction of the #abortion

The ordinance doesn’t make #abortion ilegal says the attorney - what it does say, is that you can’t ship or receive #abortion drugs “or abortion paraphernalia”

Councilor Atencio asks “if this clinic comes in can they drive to another state to pick up #abortion materials?”

Attorney of Dickson said that “the statute bans mailing and interstate travel of commerce of #abortion materials”

#AbortionRightsAreHumanRights #keepabortionsafe

Councilor Atencio JUST SHUT IT DOWN & said:

“Are you under 30”
Dickson: “yes”
Atencio: “then you’re dismissed, why are you here? This time was for discussing the law”

🎤 😂 #copolitics we drove down just to see that. #reproductiverights #reproductivejustice

GO HOME DICKSON

Councilor Regina Maestri asks: “what is the liability of the doctor who chooses to not terminate a pregnancy in late term pregnancy?”

She continues, ”this does not say abortion is ilegal but we should hold the line until the state gets it together” #copolitics #pueblo

She is asking council to consider the safety of women in this, she says “they need safe quality health care when it comes to this procedure”

Councilors one by one are debunking everything Dickson’s attorney knows about the law #copolitics

Councilor Sarah Martinez from district 3 is educating the attorney for Dickson on how federal and state law work together. #copolitics

Councilor Martinez is asking clear questions & debunking all the word vomit we are seeing from Dickson’s attorney.
#AbortionIsEssential

Councilor Flores from At Large just said “I mean, women from pueblo - if they can’t access #abortion they will drive to Colorado Springs - is this just to make it uncomfortable for women in our community?”

#copolitics #AbortionIsHealthcare #AbortionIsEssential #pueblo

THANK GOD Councilor Martinez interrupts Councilor Winner’s very uneducated word vomit about how much money abortions cost. #pueblo is in the house 🔥

Atencio - is calling out these nonsense out of staters - he says ‘you’re cherry picking’

our leaders from the state legislature are here including our #champion @Dlesgar 🔥

They start with “we respectfully disagree with everything they have said here tonight”

#coloradosupportsabortion
#AbortionIsEssential

They’re explaining the Reproductive Health Equity Act

We forgot snacks. And we forgot to prepare for a day at the capitol in #pueblo

Incredible quotes from #leadership tonight - join us on live stream if you can’t get council’s link to work!

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#ReproductiveJustice #reproductivehealth

@Dlesgar starts of strong - as someone who helped to draft RHEA “reproductive health care decisions is vital for everyone - no one should have their personal decisions decided by strangers”

“552 provisions have been put up to ban #abortion
634 have been enacted since 2011”

“44 pieces of anti-abortion state legislation have been beaten by advocates and leadership in Colorado”

In 2020 Coloradan #voters told us what they want.

She continues to define the Reproductive Health Equity Act #copolitics

“This ordinance directly violates RHEA”
🔥🎤

She says, “Can city councilors introduce ordinances that contradict state law?”

“No they can NOT.”

@Dlesgar defines how in fact, city councilors can not do that “nothing in this part 4 - a public eternity {city council}to burden the public’s rights to reproductive health care”

Now she is listing all the people that know #abortion is #reproductivehealth

She finishes

“I trust the community to make it’s own decisions for their reproductive health care”

She continue to tell us what we know - #pueblo #votes anti-abortion down. EVERYTIME. #copolitics

Councilor Atencio thanks @Dlesgar for her expertise - which he says is way better then anyone from Texas tonight.

We agree. #copolitics #coleg #reproductivejustice

Councilor Atencio is asking the best questions.

Councilor Maestri doesn’t understand what #reproductivejustice is & is asking why people would need gas money to get an #abortion

Her constituents must be struggling: she didn’t know people use gas to get to doctors appt. 🥹

@Dlesgar is defining RHEA again for our confused Councilor - Regina Maestri representing district 1

We are headed out to sit back in here for the regular meeting at 7pm!

We are headed back in line to observe #publiccomment at #pueblo city council - where Mr. Dickson thinks that #texas anti-abortion policies have a place in #copolitics

But we know that isn’t what #voters of Pueblo want. Shout out to @CoWINSpolitics & @CobaltAdvocates for hosting

Hahahaha THEY TABLED THE ORDINANCE which means the anti-abortion ordinance was put in the 🗑

Pueblo spoke. #voters #copolitics #AbortionRightsAreHumanRights

We’re celebrating with all these bad asses at @CoWINSpolitics !! @CobaltAdvocates @KAS_Project @ProgressNowCO @elephant_circle #reproductivejustice in the house #copolitics

Colorado supports #abortion overwhelmingly #reproductivehealth

Pumped to be here just jammin with #pueblo

Learning from #voters they busted down a ordinance that criminalized homelessness before busting this one.

MVPs live in #pueblo 💕😍

@UnrollHelper please #copolitics 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥