CO: Abortion rights group turns in ballot signatures
DENVER (KDVR) — A campaign that would have put an abortion ban on the Colorado ballot fell short of collecting enough signatures. But on the same day, abortion rights advocates turned in what appeared to be more than enough signatures to put a measure to protect reproductive rights on the ballot this November.
The spring snow on Thursday did not stop advocates from turning in hundreds of thousands of ballot signatures in effort to further protect abortion rights in Colorado.
Coalition members and other advocates for abortion and reproductive health care rights gathered outside the Colorado Capitol to celebrate the ballot initiative moving one step closer to the November ballot.
“This morning, a number of us delivered to the Secretary of State’s Office 99 boxes of petitions,” said Karen Middleton, president of abortion and reproductive rights advocacy group Cobalt. Middleton also co-chairs Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom, the coalition behind getting the measure on the ballot.
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