• “Ballot measures like Proposition 89 are our first line of defense against government overreach and our best tool to protect the freedom to make personal, private healthcare decisions — a right that should never depend on the source of one’s health insurance or who is in office, because a right without access is a right in name only.” - Jess Grennan, Campaign Director, Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom 
  

• “In this time of uncertainty, we need to secure abortion rights and access in the Colorado Constitution, beyond the reach of politics and politicians. This initiative will secure that right for present and future generations. A right isn’t a right if you can’t exercise it because you can’t afford it. We have to ensure that insurance coverage for every Coloradan, whether the source of it is public or private, includes abortion care. Colorado voters have made it clear over and over again that they support abortion rights, and we are confident they will again in November.” - Karen Middleton, President, Cobalt  
  

• “We’ve been building a movement to respond to the needs of the Latino community to ensure everyone who needs abortion care, regardless of insurance, can get the care they need. This initiative is our opportunity to ensure our state continues to honor the will of the voters. According to our third annual Colorado Latino Policy Agenda, protecting and expanding abortion rights is a mobilizing force for Latino voter turnout, with more than half of respondents saying that laws passed around the nation to limit or ban abortion make them more likely to vote. Protecting and expanding access to abortion is essential to democracy.” - Dusti Gurule, President and CEO, Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights. 
  

• “The precarity of abortion protections at the federal level reminds us of the urgency of enshrining abortion rights into the Colorado Constitution this November. Ensuring that all people can access this essential healthcare is critical in fulfilling our collective mandate of a just and equitable Colorado.” - Deborah Richardson, Executive Director, ACLU of Colorado 
  

• “Young people are the newest generation to consider the choice of starting a family or not, and the first to do so in a post-Dobbs world. We are issue-motivated voters who, as the largest and most diverse voting bloc in the state, have power in our numbers. Before some of us could even vote, we knew that Roe was the floor and never the ceiling. Now that we can vote, we will do everything we can to protect abortion care for all young people choosing to build lives in Colorado. We’ve turned out to protect reproductive rights before—here in Colorado and across the country—and we will do so again this November.” - Christina Soliz, Deputy Director, New Era Colorado 
  

• “Amendment 79 is a proposed change to the Colorado Constitution that seeks to establish an unrestricted right to abortion and repeal the current ban on taxpayer-funded abortions. If passed, this amendment will allow public funds to cover abortion services. It elevates abortion access to a constitutional right in Colorado, ensuring that neither the state nor local governments can regulate or restrict abortions, regardless of existing laws or practices. The amendment's fiscal impact is significant, as it would mandate taxpayer funding for abortions, creating new obligations for the state to cover these services.” - Vote No On 79 
  

• “Extreme pro-abortion groups are working overtime to enshrine the “right” to abortion in our state constitution. If successful, you will be forced to pay for abortions and we will lose our right to protect women and children from the predatory nature of the abortion industry. The “right” to abortion will exist through all nine months of pregnancy, attracting third-trimester abortionists to our state, and babies will lose their lives to excruciating procedures like partial-birth abortions.” - Coloradans for the Protection of Women and Children 
  

• “This amendment creates a constitutional “right” to unrestricted abortion and allows for taxpayer-funded abortion by repealing the constitutional ban on public funding. It bans parental notice laws. There is no age restriction on abortion in Colorado; if a boyfriend or school counselor is pressuring a 15-year-old girl to have an abortion, that 15-year old’s parents have a right to know. But the amendment outlaws parental notice. It bans any limits on late abortions. Even reasonable limits such as prohibiting abortions in the ninth month on healthy mothers and healthy babies would be illegal under the amendment. It clears the way for taxpayer-funded abortion with no reasonable restrictions or limits of any kind. It goes far beyond what Roe v. Wade authorized, banning any reasonable limits.” - Right to Know Colorado
  

• “The only provision keeping Colorado from being the number one destination for unrestricted abortion in the United States is the 1984 Colorado constitutional prohibition against the use of public funding for abortion. This is what the 2024 #89 ‘Right to Abortion’ initiative is about: codifying a ‘right to abortion’ in the Constitution and removing the prohibition against taxpayer dollars subsidizing abortion. Coloradans must say ‘no to abortion’ on April 12 and at the ballot – and spread the truth about life!” - Brittany Vessely, Pro-Life Colorado 
  

• “Colorado is a blue state where voters are being asked to closely examine how they feel about late abortion in anticipation of an initiative that will appear on the ballot in November. Initiative 89 will make unrestricted abortion a constitutionally protected right in our state. Initiative 89 prohibits anything that might “impede” access to abortion. This would include parental notification and consent for minors. The measure would restrict the ability of Coloradans to establish standard health and safety regulations for abortion clinics even though they pertain to virtually all other out-patient medical/surgical procedural clinics. This is particularly pertinent for late abortions since they are associated with much higher short term mortality rates than natural childbirth.” - Democrats for Life of America 
  

Committees formed to SUPPORT the Colorado Amendment 79, Right to Abortion and Health Insurance Coverage Initiative (2024):

COLORADANS FOR PROTECTING REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM

Selected Contributions TO Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom include:

• Cobalt Advocates
  
• Open Society Policy Center
  
• Colbalt Foundation
• Michael Bloomberg
• Institute for Responsive Government Action, Inc.
  
• Lynn Schusterman
• ProgressNow Colorado
• Merle Chambers
• North Fund

*TO VIEW FINANCIAL REPORTS BY COMMITTEE:

• Click on the link - this will bring you to the Colorado Contributions Received by a Committee – Detail report.
  
• Enter the committee's name in the " Organization/Last Name " dialog box (1st box on the left under "Committee Search"), Then click the "Search" button.
• Click on the "Committee/Canidate Name" that is highlighted in the table that appears.  This will generate drop-down box with a list of reports.  You'll need to view or export each report individually,

Committees formed to oppose the Colorado Amendment 79, Right to Abortion and Health Insurance Coverage Initiative (2024):

PRO-LIFE COLORADO FUND

Selected Contributions TO Pro-Life Colorado Fund include:

• Archdiocese of Denver
  
• Thomas Perille
  
• Catherine Wheeler
• Thomas Morroni

COLORADANS FOR THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN

Selected Contributions TO Coloradans for the Protection of Women and Children include:

• Andrew Wommack Ministries
  
• Tactical Data Solutions, Inc.
  

VOTE NO ON 79

Selected Contributions TO Vote No on 79 include:

• Larry Schreder
• Colorado Right to Life Committee