DENVER — While abortion rights advocates are thankful for the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold access to abortion medication, they expect more challenges to abortion access on many fronts.
“The main thing that we saw was that he had fluid where most of his brain should have been developing. And we went through more testing, more ultrasounds, and we just kept getting worse and worse news,” said Miller. Cobalt, a nonprofit that provides financial assistance to many of those women, spent $500,000 in the first quarter of this year helping people travel to Colorado. Officials said 85% of those who needed help traveling to Colorado were from Texas.
Last year, Colorado passed a bill designed to protect people who travel to the state to have abortions. The law instructs state agencies not to participate in or provide information to out-of-state investigations.