Colorado Gov. Polis signs bill creating ‘fundamental right’ to abortion; denying any right for the unborn

Gov. Jared Polis, D-Colo., signed into regulation a invoice making a “basic proper” to abortion, contraception, and different types of “reproductive health-care rights,” whereas explicitly denying any proper to a fetus. The invoice explicitly addresses the Supreme Courtroom’s upcoming determination in Dobbs v. Jackson Girls’s Well being Group, through which the Courtroom is predicted to overturn the abortion precedent in Roe v. Wade (1973).

Polis signed H.B. 22-1279, the “Reproductive Well being Fairness Act,” which the governor stated “codifies an individual’s basic proper to make reproductive health-care selections free from authorities interference.”

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“Within the State of Colorado, the intense determination to start out or finish a being pregnant with medical help will stay between an individual, their physician, and their religion,” Polis added in his assertion Monday.

The regulation states that “Entry to abortion and reproductive well being care is at the moment underneath assault throughout the nation. Impending federal court docket instances, together with Dobbs v. Jackson Girls’s Well being Group,… jeopardize entry to authorized abortion look after tens of tens of millions of individuals, notably these dwelling in most Southern and Midwestern states.”

The regulation units forth “basic reproductive health-care rights,” creating rights for all people, rights for “a pregnant particular person,” and explicitly denying rights for the unborn.

“Each particular person has a basic proper to make selections in regards to the particular person’s reproductive well being care, together with the basic proper to make use of or refuse contraception,” the regulation states. “A pregnant particular person has a basic proper to proceed a being pregnant and provides delivery or to have an abortion and to make selections about train that proper.”

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“A fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus doesn’t have impartial or spinoff rights underneath the legal guidelines of this state,” the regulation provides. 

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The regulation prohibits state and native public entities from denying, proscribing, interfering with, or discriminating towards an individual’s proper to make use of or refuse contraception or to proceed a being pregnant or to have an abortion. It additionally bars public entities from proscribing abortion as a result of particular person’s “potential, precise, or perceived affect on the being pregnant, the being pregnant’s outcomes, or the pregnant particular person’s well being.”

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Jeff Hunt, president of the Colorado think-tank the Centennial Institute, lamented Polis’ signing of the invoice.

“This may go down as one of many worst days in Colorado historical past,” he wrote on Twitter. “Professional-abortionists on the Colorado capitol sealed the destiny of numerous lives.”

“One in all our legislators stated her personal private story was she was born at 22 weeks,” Robyn Chambers, government director at Give attention to the Household Advocacy for Kids, advised Fox 21 when the invoice handed on a party-line vote in March. “That’s a extremely early time period child. She was celebrating her fiftieth birthday this 12 months. And one of many feedback she stated was: ‘Isn’t each baby deserving of a birthday?’”

Different states have additionally handed legal guidelines codifying abortion in case Roe will get overturned. In 2019, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., signed a regulation codifying abortion rights and explicitly eradicating protections from unborn infants.