Colorado governor signs bill to protect access to abortion
Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill into law on Monday that codifies the right to an abortion in the state.
House Bill 1279, the Reproductive Health Equity Act, states that "every individual has a fundamental right to make decisions about the individual's reproductive health care, including the fundamental right to use or refuse contraception; a pregnant individual has a fundamental right to continue a pregnancy and give birth or to have an abortion and to make decisions about how to exercise that right; and a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent or derivative rights under the laws of the state."
Polis' signature follows a flurry of recent restrictive abortion laws advanced by Republican state legislatures across the country.
At: https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/04/politics/colorado-abortion-rights-bill-governor-jared-polis-signs/index.html
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, front, signs into law the Reproductive Health Equity Act during a ceremony outside the governor's mansion today, in Denver.
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