SB23-189 requires certain health benefit plans to cover “abortion care” and “sterilization services,” while allowing “contraceptive procedures, supplies, or information” to be offered to minors without parental notification or consent.
The Senate passed SB23-189 on April 4, 2023, by a vote of 22 to 13. We have assigned pluses to the noes because the care of human life—not its destruction—is the greatest responsibility of government. Colorado ought to forbid any method of abortion, including “contraceptives” that act as abortifacients, along with the anti-reproductive practice of sex mutilation, which involves “sterilization services” such as tubal ligation or vasectomy. Both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution affirm the fundamental, God-given, and unalienable right to life and limb of every person. Therefore, each of the several States has a duty to defend the basic humanity of all its citizens, especially preborn children and minors.