A protest against the new, ultra-restrictive Texas abortion law.

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John,

Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court refused to block a blatantly unconstitutional law that effectively bans all abortions after six weeks in Texas. The Texas law deputizes private individuals to sue anyone who performs an abortion or who 'aids and abets' abortion procedures. Any doctor, nurse, assistant, and even the person who drives the patient to the operation, could all be sued under this bill. In other words, no abortions past six weeks will be legal in Texas.

The radical conservative Texas government found a blatantly unconstitutional loophole to push their unpopular cultural views, and, according to Justice Sonya Sotomayor in a powerful dissent, the Supreme Court chose to “bury their heads in the sand” instead of support long standing Supreme Court precedent.

Texas won't be the end of it. According to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports access to reproductive health, a quarter of states are likely to introduce legislation that mirrors Texas’s ban.

Colorado cannot become one of those states. We cannot allow the horrible erosion of women's reproductive rights in Texas and other states to gain a foothold in Colorado. To that end, we need to do everything we can to make Colorado more and more blue, and push Republicans here to denounce pro-life extremism in their party. If we ensure that Colorado's state government is blue, we can prevent laws like this from taking place here; and, if we ensure that Colorado's Senators and Representatives are blue, we can help protect other states in Congress.

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