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A bill to offer low-income women free long-acting reversible birth control failed on party lines in the Republican-controlled Senate kill committee, despite bipartisan efforts to...
The bipartisan battle to secure $5 million to fund a Colorado program that offers teens long-acting reversible birth control hit another snag at the...
Colorado Senate Republicans are likely to defeat a bill to direct $5 million toward giving low-income women free, long-acting, reversible birth control like intrauterine devices....
House bans conversion therapy
The American Psychiatric Association officially began opposing "conversion" or "reparative" therapy, the the psychological practice that tries to turn homosexuals into heterosexuals,...
Colorado's much-lauded 40 percent reduction in teen pregnancy rates has shifted the debate over lady parts at the Capitol, in what seems a productive...
House supports digital bullying prevention bill
"Everyone hates you."
"You are fat, pathetic and you mean nothing."
"You should just go kill yourself."
"These kinds of comments cannot...