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Initiative 89 protecting women's right to choose will go on November ballot

Reprinted from CPR News article, May 17 2024

Colorado voters will decide this fall whether to enshrine the right to legal abortion in the state constitution.

The Secretary of State's office said today that reproductive rights groups had collected enough signatures to put a measure known as Initiative 89 on the ballot for this November’s election.

Colorado law already protects legal access to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care, but advocates said they want to make that policy more permanent. This year’s measure would amend the state’s constitution, ensuring the current policy could not be changed by a future legislature. The state constitution can only be amended by a vote of the people.

Because this measure is adding text to the constitution, it will need at least 55-percent support to pass.

Supporters had to submit nearly 125,000 valid signatures from voters. The Secretary of State's office said they turned in 159,930 valid signatures.

Colorado is the second state, after Florida, to definitely have an abortion-related constitutional amendment on its ballot for the fall election. Similar efforts are currently underway in a number of other states, including Nebraska, Arizona and Nevada.

The abortion amendment is just one of numerous questions Colorado voters will be asked to decide this fall. State lawmakers referred eight measures to the ballot, including one that would remove a ban on same sex marriage from the constitution. Advocacy groups are still gathering signatures on a wide range of other issue that could also end up in front of voters.

Colorado Abortion Rights Ballot Measure Turns in Nearly Double

the Signature Requirement as Abortion Ban Measure Fails to Qualify

DENVER — On April 18, Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom, the Colorado-led coalition working to enshrine abortion rights in the Colorado constitution through what is currently Proposed Initiative 89, turned in over 232,000 signatures to the Secretary of State’s office—almost double the amount needed. As one of the biggest signature turn-ins in the state’s history, Coloradans demonstrated overwhelming support for abortion accessibility and affordability for all. Hours later, a potential abortion ban ballot measure failed to qualify for the Colorado ballot due to reportedly not collecting enough signatures.

“Today is the result of an incredible team effort led by our amazing volunteers and coalition, and it’s a day to be celebrated. This morning we turned in hundreds of thousands of signatures to the Secretary of State’s office, proving Coloradans across party lines are with us in support of abortion rights and access,” said Cobalt President Karen Middleton, Co-Chair of Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom. “The fall of Roe showed us that laws aren't enough. Coloradans deserve the freedom to make personal, private health care decisions—and that right should not depend on the source of their health insurance or who is in office. A right without access is a right in name only. That is what this measure will do: Ensure rights and access by removing a discriminatory cost barrier.”

“Today is a major win for the reproductive justice movement. The immense show of support by the more than 230,000 Coloradans who have signed on to support this measure makes clear Coloradans from every corner of the state want abortion rights to be protected, respected, and accessible for all,” shared Dusti Gurule, President and CEO of the Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR) and Campaign Co-Chair. “Now that we’ve achieved this huge milestone on the path to enacting a constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion rights in Colorado, we can set our sights on November, when voters will get the chance to protect that freedom from political overreach once and for all.”

The ballot measure for Initiative 89 reads: “A change to the Colorado constitution recognizing the right to abortion, and, in connection therewith, prohibiting the state and local governments from denying, impeding, or discriminating against the exercise of that right, allowing abortion to be a covered service under health insurance plans for Colorado state and local government employees and enrollees in state and local governmental insurance programs.”