The poll measure enshrining the best to an abortion within the Colorado state structure has handed.
The initiative — referred to as Modification 79 — makes abortion a constitutional proper in Colorado and repeals the prevailing constitutional ban on state and native governments from funding abortion companies.
As well as, the measure makes it unlawful for state and native lawmakers from “denying, impeding, or discriminating” in opposition to the best to abortion.
Earlier than the modification handed, the Colorado state structure had exceptions for its public funding ban in some circumstances — like when an abortion would save the lifetime of a pregnant particular person.
Colorado is one in every of 9 states the place abortion has remained authorized in any respect levels of being pregnant after the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court docket choice that dominated the U.S. Structure protected an individual’s proper to an abortion.
It’s also one in every of 10 states that had poll initiatives associated to abortion in the course of the 2024 election. Earlier than this measure’s passage, three states have constitutional protections for an individual’s proper to an abortion — California, Michigan and Vermont — in line with the Guttmacher Institute.
