Pregnancy and Childbirth

Fetal homicide bill defeated by Democrats not a Trojan horse for personhood, sponsor says

Update: As we reported yesterday, a fetal homicide bill sponsored by Republican Representative Janak Joshi was defeated along party lines, with Democrats saying they plan to bring forward a measure that accomplishes similar goals without being a "Trojan horse" for personhood; see our original covera ... More >>

Fetus = person? District court judges have come to different conclusions

This week's cover story, "The Meaning of Life," tells the story behind a seemingly contradictory legal argument being made by Englewood-based Catholic Health Initiatives: that a fetus is not a person. The court case in which it asserts that claim has now been appealed to the Colorado Supreme Court. ... More >>

Is a fetus a person? The Colorado Supreme Court may have to decide.

See also: Fetus = person? District court judges have come to different conclusions

Video: John Hickenlooper says Obama lost 800K jobs in first few months of his "pregnancy"

Barack Obama's supporters think he's a remarkable man. But if what Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper revealed on Meet the Press yesterday is true, he's even more astonishing than even his biggest fans believed. Why? Because as you can see in the video below, Hick said the U.S. economy had been she ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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.

Crying shame: Kristen Stillman relinquishes her four children in court

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

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 >>

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 >>

Librarians head to Denver for a quiet riot

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 >>

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

Look of the Day -- Pregnant Liz

Puppy Love

My life is going to the dogs.

In for Life: Day Eleven of the Michael Tate Trial

Born Again

Celebrate motherhood all Labor Day weekend.

Loss and Finding

Take a Chill Pill

All Grown Up

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

That Sinking Feeling

The Raft goes overboard.

Best Hair on a Media Personality's Newborn

Baby Elizabeth
Channel 9

Woman Power

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

Best Clothes for New Moms

Real Baby

Best Mall to Visit When You're Eight Months Pregnant

FlatIron Crossing

Cutting Edge

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

Mayhem All the Way

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

Best Gift Shop in a Church

Riverside Baptist Church

Best Way to Celebrate the New Baby

Rose Medical Center's gourmet meal

Best Bathroom Campaign

"Prevention Option for Women: Equal Rights"

Sea of Grass

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

Best reunion

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

Man With a Plan

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

The Fruits of Her Labor

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

Wise Gal

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

Older but Bitter

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

Bloodletting

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

Letters

Adopting an Attitude

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

THIS ONE'S OFF THE CHARTS

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

LETTERS

LETTERS

THE PARENT TRAP

IS NOTHING SACRED?