Abortionist wants ruling to bar parents from knowing about abortions on their children
Scheme would ‘open the door for minors to cross state lines’ and ‘rob parents of the chance to protect their daughters in one of the most vulnerable and life-altering moments of their lives’
A report at Colorado Politics has documented the state’s long history of work toward the agenda that was only over the last few years actually put into an organized plan when Joe Biden pushed his “abortion-for-all-at-any-time” ideologies.
Of course that would be at taxpayer expense.
The state, now turned entirely leftist with Democrats running the governor’s office, the state House and Senate, and an all-Democrat state Supreme Court that wildly tried to ban President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot, only to be put in their place by the U.S. Supreme Court, recently adopted a law claiming that abortion now is a right in the state Constitution.
“It’s well known that Colorado was the first state in the nation to enact a law that allowed a woman to obtain an abortion,” the report explains. That was in 1967, about the time state Rep. Dick Lamm, a Denver Democrat and later governor, opined publicly that seniors have a “duty to die.”
He sponsored the bill, which ironically triggered the creation by opponents of Colorado Right to Life, and shortly later, the National Right to Life.
Voters there, not always in alignment with the pro-abortion political campaigns, then voted to ban public funding of abortions. Multiple attempts to stop the abortion ideologues fell by the wayside, but lawmakers did, in 2003, adopt a parental notification.
But alongside was a “bubble” law suppressing First Amendment rights in zones around abortion industry members.
Now a lawsuit pending in the state is demanding a vast new standard that pro-life interests warn could go national: A ruling that parents have no role in a minor child’s abortion.
It is the American Center for Law and Justice that said, “If this lawsuit succeeds, it won’t just impact Colorado families. It will open the door for minors to cross state lines for secret abortions – without their parents ever knowing. It will rob parents of the chance to protect their daughters in one of the most vulnerable and life-altering moments of their lives. That’s not just dangerous – it’s a heartbreaking betrayal of parental rights.
“The complaint proudly describes Colorado as a ‘haven for abortion seekers’ – even a state intentionally open to out-of-state minors seeking abortions without parental involvement. While the complaint presents this as a virtue, it opens the door to serious risks,” the ACLJ reported. “When a girl crosses state lines for a secret abortion, and no one notifies her parents, who’s looking out for her safety? What if she’s being abused, trafficked, or pressured?
“The ACLJ has raised these concerns in court before. We’ve shown that abortion – especially when done in secret – is often used to cover up abuse: Traffickers and predators use abortion to erase evidence and keep victims under control. Abortion clinics have been caught failing to report clear signs of abuse. And minors impregnated by abusers may be forced into silence and secrecy.
“By advertising itself as a no-questions-asked abortion hub, Colorado creates a blind spot that predators can exploit. What’s marketed as ‘safe access’ quickly becomes a shield for exploitation. The infuriating irony is that the very arguments framed as ‘pro-woman’ are enabling some of the worst abuses of women and girls.”
The lawsuit is by abortionist Rebecca Cohen, who is demanding the state strike down its own parental notification law.
“She overlooks a critical fact: In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the U.S. Supreme Court made it clear that the Constitution does not guarantee a right to abortion. That decision returned abortion policymaking to the states. Meanwhile, the federal constitutional right of parents to direct their children’s upbringing – including decisions about medical care – remains fully intact. The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed this right in landmark cases, such as Pierce v. Society of Sisters and Wisconsin v. Yoder,” the ACLJ said.
