November 5, 2008 – 2:25 pm
Posted by Leslie
Written by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
Inconviencent Woman
Yes We Did!
Left, right, or independent - yesterday’s election was a paradigm shift of tectonic proportion. Millions of women joined together, gave time, talent and treasure and changed the out come of thousands of local, state and national elections.
The millions of women who cast their votes yesterday did so under the hard-won […]
October 23, 2008 – 1:59 pm
Posted by Leslie
Womens eNews
By Roberta Riley
WeNews Commentator
October 22, 2008
(WOMENSENEWS)–We’ve heard plenty of talk about abortion in this campaign season, including during the final presidential debate last week.
But what many mainstream voters may not realize is that Nov. 4 also brings us to a crossroads in a war most have never heard of: the war against contraception.
Its leaders–most […]
October 23, 2008 – 11:56 am
Posted by Leslie
Feminist Daily News Wire
October 23, 2008
Recent polling for The Denver Post shows that 48 percent of Colorado’s citizens plan to vote No on Amendment 48, a November ballot initiative that would amend the state constitution to define a fertilized, unimplanted human egg as a full person with all civil rights. Thirty percent of the electorate […]
October 2, 2008 – 1:01 pm
Posted by Leslie
Written by:
Emilie C. Ailts, Executive Director
NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado
1905 Sherman St. #800
Denver, CO 80203
(303) 394-1973 x12
eailts@prochoicecolorado.org
“In 1969, as the women’s movement was gaining momentum and influence in the Boston area and elsewhere around the country, twelve women met during a women’s liberation conference. In a workshop on ‘women and their bodies,’ they talked about their own experiences […]
October 2, 2008 – 12:56 pm
Posted by Leslie
5280 Magazine
By Bethany Kohoutek
August 8, 2008
Twenty years after anti-abortion protests made history at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, Colorado has become a battleground for reproductive rights, and the next generation of activists is targeting Denver to commemorate the occasion.
In the election year of 1988, Michael Dukakis was the Democrats’ nominee to succeed Ronald Reagan […]
October 2, 2008 – 12:44 pm
Posted by Leslie
Boulder Weekly
July 31-August 6, 2008
An in-depth look at the implications of Amendment 48
by Pamela White
A young woman arrives in the emergency room with pelvic pain and heavy bleeding. A doctor examines her and realizes the woman is in the midst of miscarriage. Rather than focusing on her treatment, however, the doctor calls in a specialist […]
October 2, 2008 – 12:36 pm
Posted by Leslie
Rocky Mountain News
September 22, 2008
Definition of Person’ measure will be a box of surprises
Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution defining the term ‘person’ to include any human being from the moment of fertilization as ‘person’ is used in those provisions of the Colorado constitution relating to inalienable rights, equality of justice, and […]
September 4, 2008 – 12:21 pm
Posted by Leslie
LA Times
Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.
By Gloria Steinem
September 4, 2008
Here’s the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing — the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party — are trying to appease the gender gap with […]
August 19, 2008 – 12:28 pm
Posted by Leslie
Why It Matters That a Fertilized Egg Is Not a Person
by Ari Armstrong and Diana Hsieh
Coalition for Secular Government • www.SecularGovernment.us
August 19, 2008
Introduction
Amendment 48 seeks to define a fertilized egg as a person with full legal rights in Colorado’s constitution. If fully implemented, it would profoundly and adversely impact the lives of sexually-ctive couples, couples […]
By Leslie
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Posted by Leslie
The Democratic Daily
August 8, 2008
by Dizzy Dezzi
The measure in question is a Colorado ballot issue (Amendment 48) which would define into law that “life begins at conception” (or the “every sex act is sacred” measure).
In effect, it would outlaw ALL abortions, including the Plan B (the morning after pill). It would also be the slippery […]
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