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With President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech scheduled for tonight, each member of Congress gets to bring along a guest of their choice to watch the address with them.
Here’s who each member of the Colorado congressional delegation will bring to tonight’s address.
Rep. Diana DeGette, a Denver Democrat, will bring Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains President Adrienne Mansanares. DeGette co-chairs the House Pro-Choice Caucus, and Mansanares has led PPRM’s work since 2022.
When Barbara Lee was a student at the all-women Mills College in the early 1970s working toward a psychology degree, a class assignment presented her with a dilemma.
Democrats are going on offense over access to in vitro fertilization (IVF), looking to hold Republicans’ feet to the fire and force them to answer uncomfortable questions about the full impact of fetal personhood.
In the wake of the Alabama Supreme Court ruling, Republicans have publicly spoken up to say they fully support IVF.
But they have largely avoided detailing how clinics should handle unimplanted, viable embryos, as many seem to agree that embryos are children with equal rights.
Last week, the Alabama Supreme Court issued a ruling that shocked the state and the nation. The absurd decision that frozen embryos created for in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures have rights of personhood has serious implications for assistive reproductive technology (ART) access around the country and has caused a devastating IVF access crisis in Alabama.
Rep. Anna G. Eshoo’s decision to retire at the end of this term will leave a key Democratic vacancy on the powerful Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, and while it’s unclear who will take over her post, early signs point to longtime committee member Diana DeGette of Colorado.
Eshoo, a California Democrat who has been in Congress for three decades, has been a stalwart on the subcommittee, serving as chair beginning in 2019 and becoming ranking member this Congress when Republicans took control of the House.
Democrats and abortion rights groups are seizing on the anti-abortion record of new House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and appear ready to use it as a cudgel against the GOP conference ahead of the 2024 elections.
Progressive abortion rights activists want to go much further in advancing abortion protections, and are pushing Democrats nationally and at the state level not to put any limits on the procedure.
As abortion rights supporters increasingly look to ballot initiatives in red and purple states, there are internal divisions over what limits, if any, they should be proposing.
The House has narrowly passed its defense authorization bill mostly along party lines, shattering a nearly 60-year precedent of passing the annual package with significant bipartisan support.
The vote was 219-210, with four Republicans opposing the package and four Democrats backing it.
