Today is an important anniversary in Colorado history, as the Denver Post reports:
Forty years ago, when Gov. John Love wrote his signature on a bill liberalizing Colorado’s abortion law, the moment signaled a stunning victory for one Denver attorney with political aspirations, and a stupefying defeat for another.
Dick Lamm, the freshman legislator who sponsored that bill making Colorado the first state to legalize abortions in certain circumstances, was euphoric.
“When you could hardly say the word ‘abortion’ in polite company, how could it pass the legislature?” Lamm said, reflecting on that day…
But Charles Onofrio, who went on to unsuccessfully challenge Lamm for his state House seat in 1970 and 1972, remembers April 25, 1967, as the day Colorado stepped into “40 years in the wilderness.”
Onofrio is one of three co-founders of the Colorado Right to Life Committee, which is bringing conservative activist Alan Keyes to speak about abortion at 1:30 p.m. today at the old Supreme Court chambers in the state Capitol.
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by being the first state in Mexico, and possibly the first place in all of Latin America, to legalize abortion.
Mexico has so many illegal abortions that it actually has more abortions per woman than the United States, but has far more deaths as a result than in the United States.
this is Colorado, where the likes of James Dobson, and the radical right would rather us all turn our back on the problem and return to the days of women performed alley abortions with coat hangers. And that is their belief in protecting the family.
The simple truth, women without a “choice” will go to the extreme in dire cases.
That’s the best they can do?
Geez. I wonder if Planned Parenthood chipped in for his plane fare? No better wild-eyed nutball than Keyes to show why we don’t need politicians making decision for women who are pregnant.
The epitomy of family values……esp. when he threw his lesbian daughter out onto the street when she came out of the closet! (My God, even Dick Cheney wouldn’t do something like that!)
which is more than I can say for Cheney or his daughter for that matter.
Liked it
When it comes to GLBT political issues Dan Savage is the man.
or that dude in the parka sifting through the trash in the dumpster behind Tommy’s Thai on Colfax. Tough choice, but Keyes’ speaking fees are less.
One of my best friends bought a house on Colfax A right behind Tommy’s Thai. He left after a few years of his kids seeing some pretty weird shit down there.
They did a very good story on this yesterday. They interviewed the woman who started Colorado “pro life” and a REPUBLICAN state legislator that backed the bill passed by a REPUBLICAN leg. Not to be forgotten that it was signed by a REPUBLICAN govenor. As he pointed out, there was no religious right then, only the Catholic church.
Boy, for those days of working together for the greater good. What a concept.
The bill was a means of countering what was estimated 5,000 women losing their lives every year due to illegal abortions. That’s an average of 100 per state.
Anyone who places the life of an adult, developed person ahead of a fetus, or less………. What can you possibly reason with?
Too many hypocrites moaning too loud on Saturday night, and praying too loud on Sunday morning. If only those were the party affiliation numbers…