Coloradans will vote on protecting abortion rights this November
Source: Colorado Public Radio
Colorado voters will decide this fall whether to enshrine the right to legal abortion in the state constitution.
The Secretary of State's office said today that reproductive rights groups had collected enough signatures to put a measure known as Initiative 89 on the ballot for this November’s election.
Colorado law already protects legal access to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care, but advocates said they want to make that policy more permanent. This year’s measure would amend the state’s constitution, ensuring the current policy could not be changed by a future legislature. The state constitution can only be amended by a vote of the people.
Because this measure is adding text to the constitution, it will need at least 55-percent support to pass.
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By Andrew Kenney
·May. 17, 2024, 3:17 pm
Read more: https://www.cpr.org/2024/05/17/colorado-abortion-protection-initiative-2024-constitution/
Related: Abortion rights amendments qualify for the ballot in Colorado and South Dakota (NBC News)
