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Jared Polis
Protecting individual freedoms and ensuring that Coloradans have access to quality, affordable reproductive health services is a top priority for Governor Polis. Since taking office in 2019, the Polis Administration has built on the successful Colorado Family Planning Initiative (CFPI), which provided support to providers and low or no-cost contraception to low-income Coloradans.

Jared Polis

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Governor Polis Issued Executive Order D 2022 032
Governor Polis issued Executive Order D 2022 032, directing state agencies and departments managed by Governor-appointed executives to protect access to reproductive health care in Colorado within their authority under law.

Governor Polis Issued Executive Order D 2022 032

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Coloradans do not want politicians making their healthcare decisions. Because of my administration and Democratic leadership in the legislature, Coloradans don't have to worry because our rights are still protected today despite the unfortunate reality that the U.S. Supreme Court rolled those freedoms back for millions of Americans in other states. In Colorado, we will continue to choose freedom and we stand against government control over our bodies. State leadership matters now more than ever and in Colorado we will not retreat to an archaic era where the powerful few controlled the freedoms over our bodies and health decisions.

Governor Jared Polis, Colorado

KEY ACTIONS

  • Amicus Brief in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. Food and Drug Administration
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  • Colorado
  • July 19, 2024

    Amicus Brief in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. Food and Drug Administration

    Governor Polis and 21 other governors filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of abortion rights in Food and Drug Administration, et al., v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. In this brief, the Reproductive Freedom Alliance governors argued that if the Court reverses FDA approval of Mifepristone and limits access to the vital medicine, it could undermine Governors’ ability to provide adequate healthcare services and would have far-reaching implications beyond reproductive healthcare.

    Department of Health Care Policy & Financing Expanded Benefits
  • Colorado
  • Colorado
  • Department of Health Care Policy & Financing Expanded Benefits

    In 2023, the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing expanded pharmaceutical access to the medicinal treatment of maternity, pregnancy-related (e.g., non-viable pregnancies/miscarriages, etc.) conditions, and previously expanded places of service and provider types eligible to provide legal abortion services (when following federal and state service guidelines).

    House Bill 22-1289
  • Colorado
  • Colorado
  • July 19, 2024

    House Bill 22-1289

    This law allows for pregnant undocumented people and their children, who would otherwise qualify for Medicaid and the Children’s Basic Health Plan, or CHIP, to be provided full health insurance coverage.

    House Bill 22-1279
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  • Colorado
  • House Bill 22-1279

    This law codifies an individual’s fundamental right to use or refuse contraception and continue or terminate a pregnancy, asserts that a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent rights under state law, and protects individuals from government interference in their reproductive health care rights.

    Senate Bill 23-188
  • Colorado
  • Colorado
  • Senate Bill 23-188

    This law protects health care providers from discrimination and adverse actions by insurers, public entities, other states, and regulators as the result of their choice to provide or assist in the provision of health care that is legal in Colorado. The law also requires correctional facilities to ensure pregnant incarcerated people have the ability to get transportation to and access to abortion and miscarriage management through referrals to providers regardless of the ability to pay. Additionally, it protects providers by adding them to the list of protected persons whose information may be withheld from the internet for safety concerns as well as the state address confidentiality program.

    Senate Bill 23-189
  • Colorado
  • Colorado
  • Senate Bill 23-189

    This law expands access to reproductive health care services in both commercial insurance and Medicaid. It expands zero-cost coverage for abortion, sterilization services, STI prevention services, HIV prevention monitoring services, and STI treatment. SB 23-189 also expands coverage for family planning-related services through the Emergency Medicaid Services benefit for eligible individuals, regardless of their citizenship or immigration status, and strengthens access to HIV prevention and treatment medication in commercial insurance and Medicaid.

    Senate Bill 23-190
  • Colorado
  • Colorado
  • Senate Bill 23-190

    This law combats fake clinics by making it a deceptive trade practice to advertise that a person provides abortions, emergency contraceptives, or referrals for those services when they know or reasonably should have known that they do not provide those services. This bill also bans the harmful and damaging practice known as abortion pill reversal.

    Senate Bill 23-284
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  • Colorado
  • Senate Bill 23-284

    This law strengthens access to extended 12-month supply, alternative contraception methods, and over-the-counter contraception at no cost to commercially covered Coloradans.

    Executive Order D 2022 032
  • Colorado
  • Colorado
  • Executive Order D 2022 032

    Issued in July 2022 by Governor Jared Polis, Executive Order D 2022 032 directs state agencies and departments managed by Governor-appointed executives to protect access to reproductive health care in Colorado within their authority under the law.

    IN THE NEWS

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  • Colorado governor signs bills further enshrining rights to abortion and gender-affirming care
  • CNN
  • Colorado
  • CNN
  • Colorado
  • April 15, 2023 • Sydney Kashiwagi

    Colorado governor signs bills further enshrining rights to abortion and gender-affirming care

    Sydney Kashiwagi

    Democratic Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado signed a trio of bills Friday that further protect the rights to abortion and gender-affirming services in the state, as access to the so-called abortion pill across the country remains in limbo and some neighboring conservative states have moved to restrict such procedures.

    Gov. Jared Polis issues executive order protecting Colorado’s abortion providers and out-of-state patients
  • CPR News
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  • CPR News
  • Colorado
  • July 6, 2022 • Megan Verlee

    Gov. Jared Polis issues executive order protecting Colorado’s abortion providers and out-of-state patients

    Megan Verlee

    Governor Jared Polis has issued an executive order aimed at giving legal protection to people who come to Colorado for abortions, or to anyone who helps another person cross state lines to get the procedure.

    Colorado governor signs bill codifying the right to abortion in state law
  • CBS News
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  • CBS News
  • Colorado
  • April 4, 2022

    Colorado governor signs bill codifying the right to abortion in state law

    Colorado joined a handful of other states Monday in codifying the right to abortion in statute, a party-line response to efforts across the country to limit abortion access in anticipation of a pending U.S. Supreme Court ruling on a challenge to the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that banned states from outlawing abortion.

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