Colorado House panel rejects three GOP abortion bills

Colorado House Democrats on Thursday beat back three Republican-sponsored abortion bills, the most restrictive of which would have made it a crime for a physician to perform an abortion in most cases.

The hearing stretched past midnight before the final bill was killed, with emotional testimony from dozens of people, including medical experts, activists on both sides and women who had had abortions and later regretted it.

The measures to impose new restrictions on abortion were debated a week after the Democrat-controlled House passed a resolution reaffirming its support for abortion rights in the state. None of the bills had much chance of passing, something abortion-rights advocates reiterated often leading up to the vote.

“These three bills are more of the old, tired attempts to interfere with women’s health care,” said Sarah Taylor-Nanista, a spokeswoman at Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, in a statement.

Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/2017/02/09/house-rejects-abortion-reversal-pill-bill/