Colorado codifies abortion right into law with no restrictions

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill Monday codifying the appropriate to terminate a pregnancy without the need of governmental constraints into legislation.

The new law states that “each individual expecting personal has a essential proper to continue the pregnancy and give beginning or to have an abortion.”

The laws additional asserts that “a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent or derivative legal rights under the legislation of the condition,” stripping any legal rights from an unborn little one.

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“The serious choice to commence or stop a pregnancy with medical guidance will stay amongst a human being, their health practitioner, and their faith,” Polis said in a signing assertion.

The governor’s business office did not react to the Washington Examiner’s request for remark.

Colorado is one of a number of blue states to shift in modern yrs to enact legislation guarding abortion legal rights in anticipation of a Supreme Court docket ruling restricting or reversing the 1973 Roe v. Wade final decision that legalized abortion nationwide.

Several purple states, in distinction, have passed legal guidelines regulating abortion. Final week, for illustration, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed a monthly bill barring abortion just after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

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“We also affirmed Arizona’s motivation to shielding the life of preborn young children with the signing of S.B. 1164. The monthly bill prohibits a physician from carrying out an abortion past 15 weeks gestation, except in a health-related emergency,” Ducey stated in a tweet.