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Pregnancy and Childbirth

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    7 worst sex-ed clichés in Jefferson County's Think Beyond Friday Night video

    ​Jefferson County Child Support Services has developed a new video intended to show that the department offers support for teen parents and children. However, most of the 21-minute long production called Think Beyond Friday Night is spent detailing all the horrors and tribulations of teen p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    Gregory Maguire on the end of Oz, the modern fairy tale and more

    ​Author Gregory Maguire will be in town tonight at the Tattered Cover LoDo to celebrate, sign and talk about his newest book, Out of Oz, the final installment in his series of Wizard of Oz-based novels. The series, which debuted with Wicked sixteen years ago and spawned a hit Broadway play, is ... More >>

  • News

    August 11, 2011

    Abstinence-only funding was refused, but that didn't stop a state school-board member

    ​Author Gregory Maguire will be in town tonight at the Tattered Cover LoDo to celebrate, sign and talk about his newest book, Out of Oz, the final installment in his series of Wizard of Oz-based novels. The series, which debuted with Wicked sixteen years ago and spawned a hit Broadway play, is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2011

    Kristen Stillman has a second chance at motherhood

    Kristen Stillman​ Kristen Stillman has a second chance at motherhood. A victim of horrific abuse for more than a dozen years -- which resulted in her giving birth to four children before she was twenty, all fathered by her rapist -- she'd been in court to testify against Eric Torrez, who wound ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2011

    Midwifery: Bill to revise midwifery law passes out of committee with additions intact

    ​ A bill to broaden the scope of what Colorado's home-birth midwives can do passed another hurdle yesterday: The Senate Health & Human Services Committee approved it in an 8-1 vote. Testimony stretched for three hours and included impassioned pleas from both sides, including from Indra Lusero, ... More >>

  • News

    January 27, 2011

    Indra Lusero's pitch to help Colorado midwives is catching heat in the legislature

    ​ A bill to broaden the scope of what Colorado's home-birth midwives can do passed another hurdle yesterday: The Senate Health & Human Services Committee approved it in an 8-1 vote. Testimony stretched for three hours and included impassioned pleas from both sides, including from Indra Lusero, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    Midwives: Mom Jen Johnson's home-birth story

    ​ This week's cover story, "Special Delivery," tells the story of Indra Lusero, a home-birth-mom-turned-lawyer who has thrust herself into a legislative battle between midwives and doctors. After giving birth at home with a midwife eight years ago, Lusero became an advocate for the age-old pro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    Reader: Sex ed must go beyond condoms to take on STDs, "hormonal upheaval" of abortion

    ​Reporter Melanie Asmar's recent post juxtaposing abstinence education versus what she termed more "realistic" sex ed drew a passionate response from one reader. She feels the question should go well beyond whether or not instructors will still be able to use bananas and condoms.

  • News

    September 23, 2010

    Crying shame: Kristen Stillman relinquishes her four children in court

    ​Reporter Melanie Asmar's recent post juxtaposing abstinence education versus what she termed more "realistic" sex ed drew a passionate response from one reader. She feels the question should go well beyond whether or not instructors will still be able to use bananas and condoms.

  • News

    September 9, 2010

    Kristen Stillman puts her family first. That's why she's letting her four kids go

    ​Reporter Melanie Asmar's recent post juxtaposing abstinence education versus what she termed more "realistic" sex ed drew a passionate response from one reader. She feels the question should go well beyond whether or not instructors will still be able to use bananas and condoms.

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2009

    Magic Cyclops discourages teen pregnancy

    ​Oh, Magic Cyclops, how do we love you? Let us count the ways. Although he's had a spate of bad luck recently, namely being completely shafted by Hotels.com, who maxed his credit card while he was in New York, which ultimately left him penniless and starving for a few days until he could board ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2009

    Baby born at Denver Public Library truly is Unique

    Jonathan Shikes' January 27 blog "The Downtown Library's New Due Date" was the first to tell the story of a woman giving birth at Denver Public Library's main branch, at 10 W. 14th Avenue Parkway. Yesterday, Channel 4 correspondent Raj Chohan filled in the details via interviews with proud mom Dom ... More >>

  • News

    January 29, 2009

    Librarians head to Denver for a quiet riot

    Jonathan Shikes' January 27 blog "The Downtown Library's New Due Date" was the first to tell the story of a woman giving birth at Denver Public Library's main branch, at 10 W. 14th Avenue Parkway. Yesterday, Channel 4 correspondent Raj Chohan filled in the details via interviews with proud mom Dom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 26, 2008

    Publicist forces Lance Armstrong's pregnant girlfriend to take down her Facebook and Myspace profiles

    Once upon a time, Anna Hansen was your average blond, pretty, sorta-outdoorsy Colorado girl working as a waitress at Rio Grande in Boulder while attending CU. Four years later, after living abroad for a spell, she gets a job with a non-profit in Vail, takes up competitive mountain biking, starts da ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2008

    Will Mike Huckabee treat Sarah Palin's daughter like Jamie Lynn Spears?

    Once upon a time, Anna Hansen was your average blond, pretty, sorta-outdoorsy Colorado girl working as a waitress at Rio Grande in Boulder while attending CU. Four years later, after living abroad for a spell, she gets a job with a non-profit in Vail, takes up competitive mountain biking, starts da ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2008

    Look of the Day -- Pregnant Liz

    Once upon a time, Anna Hansen was your average blond, pretty, sorta-outdoorsy Colorado girl working as a waitress at Rio Grande in Boulder while attending CU. Four years later, after living abroad for a spell, she gets a job with a non-profit in Vail, takes up competitive mountain biking, starts da ... More >>

  • News

    December 20, 2007

    Puppy Love

    My life is going to the dogs.

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2007

    In for Life: Day Eleven of the Michael Tate Trial

    My life is going to the dogs.

  • Calendar

    August 30, 2007

    Born Again

    Celebrate motherhood all Labor Day weekend.

  • Calendar

    February 22, 2007

    Loss and Finding

    Celebrate motherhood all Labor Day weekend.

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2006

    Take a Chill Pill

    Celebrate motherhood all Labor Day weekend.

  • News

    October 19, 2006

    All Grown Up

    At eighteen, these foster kids aged out of a system that denied them a childhood.

  • Culture

    February 9, 2006

    That Sinking Feeling

    The Raft goes overboard.

  • People & Places

    March 24, 2005

    Best Hair on a Media Personality's Newborn

    Baby Elizabeth
    Channel 9

  • Culture

    June 10, 2004

    Woman Power

    Saints and Hysterics has comic originality but is thin as a drama.

  • Goods & Services

    March 25, 2004

    Best Clothes for New Moms

    Real Baby

  • Culture

    May 16, 2002

    Time Out

    Cloud Tectonics creates an enchanted world in which clocks stop but meanings flow.

  • Goods & Services

    April 4, 2002

    Best Mall to Visit When You're Eight Months Pregnant

    FlatIron Crossing

  • Calendar

    April 4, 2002

    Best Theater-Company Season

    Denver Center Theatre Company

  • News

    February 14, 2002

    Cutting Edge

    A plan by some Colorado leaders to trim hard-won health-insurance benefits could leave consumers feeling the pain.

  • Film

    June 28, 2001

    Mayhem All the Way

    In Time and Tide, Tsui Hark delivers a plotless wonder.

  • News

    June 7, 2001

    Pop Quiz

    As genetic testing pins down paternity issues, the definition of fatherhood gets murkier.

  • Goods & Services

    March 29, 2001

    Best Gift Shop in a Church

    Riverside Baptist Church

  • Goods & Services

    March 29, 2001

    Best Way to Celebrate the New Baby

    Rose Medical Center's gourmet meal

  • People & Places

    March 29, 2001

    Best Bathroom Campaign

    "Prevention Option for Women: Equal Rights"

  • Calendar

    September 28, 2000

    Sea of Grass

    Kent Haruf sets Plainsong on an island in the eastern Colorado's prairie ocean.

  • Best of Denver

    June 29, 2000

    Best reunion

    Front Range Women in the Arts (Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art)

  • News

    April 6, 2000

    Man With a Plan

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

  • News

    August 12, 1999

    The Fruits of Her Labor

    Sex, lies and Pam Adair's audiotape keep the All Stars Sports Cabaret dancing.

  • News

    March 18, 1999

    Wise Gal

    Anne Slemmons took Michael Wise's money and ran for the border.

  • News

    August 22, 1996

    Older but Bitter

    Sixty-eight-year-old Wanda Crawford hasn't killed anyone yet. But authorities say it's not for lack of trying.

  • Music

    May 23, 1996

    Bloodletting

    Performance artist Cristofer Lix talks and sings about living with AIDS.

  • News

    May 23, 1996

    Letters

    Performance artist Cristofer Lix talks and sings about living with AIDS.

  • News

    April 25, 1996

    Adopting an Attitude

    Since private agencies took control of adoption in colorado, costs have gone up. For would-be parents, so have the heartaches.

  • News

    November 29, 1995

    THIS ONE'S OFF THE CHARTS

    TINA KNOX'S DEATH WAS SAD, AND SO WAS HER TREATMENT.

  • News

    November 29, 1995

    LETTERS

    TINA KNOX'S DEATH WAS SAD, AND SO WAS HER TREATMENT.

  • News

    November 15, 1995

    LETTERS

    TINA KNOX'S DEATH WAS SAD, AND SO WAS HER TREATMENT.

  • News

    April 19, 1995

    THE PARENT TRAP

    TINA KNOX'S DEATH WAS SAD, AND SO WAS HER TREATMENT.

  • News

    January 18, 1995

    IS NOTHING SACRED?

    TINA KNOX'S DEATH WAS SAD, AND SO WAS HER TREATMENT.

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