The Colorado legislature recently voted down three abortion bills. (Thinkstock)
Re: “House Democrats’ failure on Colorado abortion bills,” March 19 letter to the editor.
Women’s health should not be a partisan issue. We applaud the Colorado legislators who have protected women’s health by voting down bills whose goal, under the guise of “protecting women’s health,” were to undermine safe abortion services.
House Bill 1128 sought to close down abortion provider clinics by imposing unnecessary regulations on providers, which already meet federal and state standards. House Bill 1112 was an unnecessary bill, seeking to ban a service that has long been abandoned. The bill’s true intent was to scare doctors and limit access to services. Finally, House Bill 1162 was another thinly veiled attempt to interfere with the doctor-patient relationship and access to abortion, and promoted racial profiling in our health system.
This letter was merely an attempt to use partisanship to confuse. Colorado voters have rejected attempts to ban abortion three times. The authors of these bills are extremists and should stop trying to interfere in women’s personal and private health decisions.
Cathy Alderman,Denver
The writer is vice president of public affairs for Planned Parenthood Votes Colorado.
This letter was published in the March 29 edition.
