A coalition of local organizations dedicated to protecting abortion access held an afternoon virtual news conference Friday, mourning Roe’s fall and mapping out next steps to bolster abortion rights in Colorado.
Fourth-generation Texan Leah Payne moved to Denver last year in the wake of a new Texas abortion law that imposed some of the strictest abortion restrictions in the nation.
Payne chose her new home after learning about access to reproductive care in the state, and many Americans who woke up on Friday with fewer rights than they had a day prior may be forced to make similar choices. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling on Friday in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, leaving it up to the states to regulate abortions. For about half the country, abortions will be banned or severely restricted.
Policy Director Jack Teter of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains said the country is “entering an era of unknown risk,” with some states like California and Connecticut seeking to pass laws that would block extradition, for example. He said he can’t sleep at night because he’s so devastated thinking about the impacts of Roe v. Wade on people in other states. But he said Colorado providers will also have to prepare for how that will affect Coloradans’ appointments for other reproductive care and health services, facing much longer wait times in an already strained system.
“Right now we are seeing every patient who needs us, but there will come a time over the next several months, over the next year, when there are simply too many patients,” he said. OBGYNs are reporting similar statistics. Dr. Nancy Fang who provides abortions in Colorado said in an interview that as of April, about 20% of her clinic’s clients were from out of state, an increase from the prior year.
Froelich said lawmakers will be working in the 2023 session to address some of these issues, but the Taxpayer Bill of Rights limits how much they can do when it comes to funding. “Accessibility to reproductive health and abortion care is essential, and forcing those who need to access that care to take extraordinary measures if they’re in a state where there’s going to be a ban or significant restrictions, is really something that I would want people to think about deeply,” she said.
When Payne, the former Texas resident, heard the Supreme Court’s ruling Friday morning, she took the day off work.
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