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 2002, Musgrave's devotion to squashing women's rights, gay rights -- basically the rights of anyone with a decent shoe collection -- has made her a front-runner for Shmuck of the Decade. But there she w
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If you thought you were rid of the folks behind last election season's anti-abortion movement, then.... Who am I kidding? We all knew they'd be back. (Colorado Pols)
Rep. Betsy Markey probably didn't mean she she reads the entire, full copy of the bills she signs. But Face the State's throwing her under the bus anyway. (Face the State)
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Kristi Burton.Remember the Personhood Amendment? Promoted as the brainchild of then-21-year-old Kristi Burton, the subject of a Westword profile, the measure would have established that a human's life begins at the moment of fertilization -- and despite a big effort on its behalf by abortion foes, it was easily defeated in last year's election. That doesn't suggest a groundswell for its reintroduction -- but it's coming back anyhow. The Denver Post's Lynn Bartels reports that the title of
