Tag: Contraception
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EDITORIAL: Doomsayers frighten prospective parents
A comprehensive Gazette report reveals how Colorado’s young adults increasingly opt against having children. Let’s hope it is a short-lived trend. “Colorado’s annual fertility rate — total live births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 — hovered at around 60 to 70 births since 1980, peaking at 70.8 births in 2006,” explains the article…
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Colorado Democratic lawmakers to sponsor bill upholding women’s right to abortion in 2022 session
The prospect that the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade is pushing Colorado’s Democratic women legislators to act, long before a decision from the court is likely. The nation’s highest court is reviewing Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a 2018 Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks.…