Abortion

Aborted fetus photos: Should protestors be allowed to display them where kids might see?

Should abortion protestors be allowed to wave signs featuring "gruesome images" in places where children might see them? That's the question two Colorado anti-abortion advocates and the Chicago-based Thomas More Society, a national pro-life law firm, want the U.S. Supreme Court to answer. "Children ... More >>

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Gazette's Wayne Laugesen on why he thinks Planned Parenthood covers up statutory rape

Update: This weekend, Colorado Springs Gazette editorial page editor Wayne Laugesen published a scathing piece in which he argued that Planned Parenthood was likely worse than Penn State when it came to covering up sexual assaults on children; our previous coverage is below. Laugesen explains the ti ... More >>

Personhood Amendment petition drive launches with event at Planned Parenthood

At 2 p.m. today, the Colorado Personhood Coalition will hold a press conference at a very pointed location -- a local Planned Parenthood office -- to tout the beginning of a petition drive for the latest version of a Personhood resolution. And campaign reps including Kristi Burton Brown, the face of ... More >>

Rally to Protect Women's Health takes on fetal murder bill, personhood initiative

Pro-choice activists, legislators, physicians and faith leaders gathered on the west steps of the Capitol Monday in a "Rally to Protect Women's Health." The event was a spin-off of Pro-Choice Lobby Day, as well as a response to local and federal fetal personhood proposals.

Greg Brophy may choose to lay low on Pro-Choice Lobby Day

Timing is everything in politics, and in birth control -- especially in the bad old days of the rhythm method, which it seems like some pols would like to return us to. In honor of Pro-Choice Lobby Day at the Colorado Legislature today, state senator Greg Brophy should choose to keep a low profile.

Pro-Choice Lobby Day pits activists against personhood measure and more

Today, approximately a hundred advocates of women's health took to the Capitol as part of Pro-Choice Lobby Day. The event, held in Denver annually for more than a decade, brought the Protect Families Protect Choice Coalition together with Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains to train supporters ... More >>

Komen Denver affiliate rejects ban on Planned Parenthood grants

Race for the Cure.​For many years, the regional Planned Parenthood headquarters was Westword's neighbor, and we had a front-row seat for the picketers who harassed employees of an organization that does so much more than providing abortion services.

Kenneth Scott, abortion protester: Injunction rejected, attorney calls it precedent-setting

Update: Yesterday, the Justice Department's request for a preliminary injunction against abortion protester Kenneth Scott, federally charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, aka the FACE Act, was rejected. Scott's legal team considers the ruling a major victory that's po ... More >>

Kenneth Scott, abortion protester, adds national lawyers to defense team in clinic-blocking case

Kenneth and Jo Scott.​ Kenneth Scott, abortion protester extraordinaire, recently added more firepower to his legal defense: He is now being represented by the Thomas More Society, a national pro-life law firm. In June, Scott and his wife, Jo, were served with a civil complaint by the U.S. Jus ... More >>

Personhood Amendment reboot Q&A with Kristi Burton Brown, face of original 2008 campaign

Kristi Burton Brown.​The so-called Personhood Amendment, which holds that the term "person" applies to humans from their biological starting point, failed in Colorado in 2008 and 2010 -- but last week, organizers filed new language with the goal of putting the measure on the 2012 ballot. What ... More >>

Jo Scott, abortion zealot, permanently enjoined from using threat of force at clinic protests

Jo Scott.​Jo Scott is the truest of believers when it comes the fight against abortion rights -- so much so that she's repeatedly violated both state and federal laws designed to protect clinic visitors. But the level of harassment will presumably be modified now that a settlement with the Jus ... More >>

Jo Scott, abortion protester, hit with federal charges after allegedly shoving man at clinic

Jo Scott.​In April, Jo Scott -- one of the central figures in our 2008 feature "Planned Parenthood's Scheme to Bust Abortion Protesters" -- was convicted of violating the state's bubble law, which bans anti-abortion picketers from coming within eight feet of anyone in a hundred-foot radius of ... More >>

Reader: Planned Parenthood birth control stops more abortions than protesters ever will

Jo Scott.​Yesterday, we reported about a pair of guilty verdicts against Jo Scott in relation to Colorado's bubble law, which is meant to prevent anti-abortion protesters from harassing clinic patients. In the post, we quoted Scott from a 2008 interview talking about how she's a hero for savi ... More >>

Jo Scott, abortion protester, pleads guilty to violating clinic bubble law -- again

Jo Scott in 2008.​The 2008 feature "Planned Parenthood's Scheme to Bust Abortion Protesters" focused on longtime pro-life advocate Jo Scott. That August, she was convicted of violating the state's "bubble law," which prohibits anti-abortion types from coming within eight feet of anyone in a hu ... More >>

Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad wins NRB award (and continuing publicity) for Focus on the Family

Tim & mom.​The 2010 Super Bowl ad featuring Tim Tebow and his mom is the gift that keeps on giving for Focus on the Family. Next month at their convention in Nashville, the National Religious Broadcasters will reportedly name it the year's best -- and why not? The commercial, on view below, ce ... More >>

Birthornot takes pro-choice to the extreme, but not in a good way

birthornot​In what is possibly the most egregious use of an Internet poll to date, a couple from Minnesota is allowing people to vote on whether or not the woman should have an abortion. The simple fact that this couple is holding this poll, on the site birthornot.com, already places them well ... More >>

Amendment 62 Personhood challenge shot down in Denver District Court

A graphic from the Personhood USA website.​Proponents of Amendment 62 hit a roadblock yesterday in their drive to get Colorado voters to approve Amendment 62, an updated version of the anti-abortion measure that voters soundly defeated in 2008. A suit brought by amendment sponsors Gualberto Ga ... More >>

Kristi Burton Brown, face of last Personhood amendment, on new pro-life blog and new baby

Kristi Burton Brown.​The first incarnation of this year's Personhood Amendment, which says the term "person" applies to humans from their biological starting point, popped up in 2008, when the face of the proposal was 21-year old Westword cover girl Kristi Burton. This year, Kristi's playing ... More >>

Tom Tancredo doesn't know if Dan Maes would be a better governor than John Hickenlooper

Tom Tancredo.​Earlier today, we told you that Dan Maes had rejected a suggestion from Tom Tancredo that both of them drop out of the governor's race to allow the state GOP to choose a fresh candidate. Tancredo says this offer shouldn't be interpreted as proof he's not wholly committed to beat ... More >>

Warren Hern, Boulder abortion doctor, is "pissed," fears violence as Sacred Heart of Jesus protests clinic

Warren Hern has some harsh words for Sacred Heart of Jesus Church.​Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Catholic church and school that was recently the subject of national headlines for its refusal to teach the children of a same-sex couple in Boulder, has now become the target of an abortion doctor in ... More >>

Abortion provider Dr. Warren Hern: Trial for man who threatened him gives platform for "fascist ideology"

For Dr. Warren Hern, as seen here in a Boulder Daily Camera video, threats are nothing new.​Last August, we told you about an indictment against Donald Hertz, a Washington man who made threats against Boulder's Dr. Warren Hern, the last practitioner in the U.S. still doing late-term abortions. ... More >>

Sarah Palin is only pretending to be pro-life enough, says American Right to Life

Sarah Palin: pro-life exemplar or poser in lipstick?​Sarah Palin, who's monopolizing the airwaves as part of her publicity tour for her new book, Going Rogue, is widely viewed as one of the more pro-life politicians on the current scene. After all, her youngest child, Trig, received a pre-nata ... More >>

Abortion rights a hill Diana DeGette's willing to die on in healthcare debate

Will Nancy Pelosi get so mad at Diana DeGette that she actually blinks?​Just because the House of Representatives passed a healthcare bill this weekend doesn't mean it'll stay passed. Denver congresswoman Diana DeGette is leading a group of reproductive-rights supporters who are mad as hell th ... More >>

Threat against abortion doctor Warren Hern: Read the indictment here

Warren Hern, in an image from a Boulder Daily Camera video.​As Patricia Calhoun pointed out earlier this morning, Boulder's Warren Hern, the last practitioner in the U.S. still doing late-term abortions, was the subject of a death threat by a Spokane, Washington, man, Donald Hertz, mere weeks ... More >>

Sonia Sotomayor could declare martial law on Kevin Orcutt's nunchaku

Boulder abortion doctor Warren Hern now seeing patients of murdered colleague George Tiller

Dr. Warren Hern in an image from a Boulder Daily Camera video. As one of the most prominent doctors in the country to perform late-term abortions, Boulder's Warren Hern has been much in the news since the slaying last month of his friend and colleague, Kansas's George Tiller. And now it appears tha ... More >>

Shmuck of the Week: Marilyn Musgrave

Musgrave (left) receives an award from the anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony Center. First off, apologies are probably in order. It occurs to me that, over the last six months, you've probably managed to wipe clean the stains left on your mind by former Rep. Marilyn Musgrave. Since her election in 20 ... More >>

Archbishop Charles Chaput works both sides of political fence

Archbishop Charles Chaput. Denver-based Archbishop Charles Chaput has grown more political since taking over as head of the city's archdiocese in 1997 -- and he spoke out early and often about the politics of abortion during the run-up to the 2008 presidential vote. As such, even his condemnation ... More >>

Planned Parenthood -- for all your holiday gifts

I can be one hard gal to shop for, and I've been known to exchange, re-gift and return gifts. I can't help it -- which means many of my exhausted family members and friends have simply given up and retreated to the faithful standby of gift cards and certificates. Haters say the cards or certifica ... More >>

Letters to the Editor

Letters from the week of October 2, 2008

Planned Parenthood's scheme to bust abortion protesters

Kristi Burton would like a few minutes of your time to talk about fetuses

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

One very bad day in Ceausescu’s Romania.

Anti-Abortion Group Raises Stakes in Construction Boycott

Lake of Fire

Seventeen years in the making, Tony Kaye’s epic abortion doc gives a lot — but no answer.

Yappers’ Corner: Planned Parenthood's Secret Relocation

Get Up, Stand Up

Denver comics star in Johnny Morehouse's documentary.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of February 3, 2005

Letters to the Editor

From the week of April 13

Man With a Plan

A Boulder women's center survives governor's attempts to abort funding.

They're in Deep

The Water Children wades through the emotional complexities of abortion.

Making Book on Bill Owens

Questions about the religious right are this GOP candidate's cross to bear--or is that bare?

Spin Cycles

Laundered money, the shadow of big tobacco, and a blubbering court reporter: The wild trial over Colorado's Amendment 15.

Letters

Life of the Party

Winning the Governor's Mansion could be a religious experience for the GOP.

Letters

Split in the Ranks

Warren Hern takes some heat from fellow pro-abortion activists.

God's Own Party

Everything's divine in Arvada, where the GOP has veered sharply to the religious right.

Choosing Sides