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In Colorado’s 7th and 8th Congressional Districts, where a majority of residents voted for Biden in the 2020 presidential election, it is now clear that no matter the Republican nominee, voters will have an obvious choice between a Democrat who supports reproductive rights and an extremist who wants to ban abortion nationwide come November.
In Colorado’s 7th Congressional District, Republican Erik Aadland “applauded” the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe, and equated the Colorado law currently protecting abortion rights at the state level with North Korea’s regime.
Meanwhile, Aadland’s primary opponent Tim Reichert, who has been noted nationally as one of the most extreme, anti-choice Republicans in the country has been silent on the overturn of fifty years of legal precedent. Previously, Reichert claimed abortion and birth control were leading to the ‘demise of America’. Notably, today’s Supreme Court decision jeopardized established legal protections for birth control access.
In Colorado’s 8th Congressional District, Republican frontrunners Lori Saine and Barbara Kirkmeyer are attempting to out-extreme each other, unable to control their excitement while women across the country witness their fundamental rights ripped away.
In the wake of Roe’s overturn, House Republicans are already plotting the implementation of a national abortion ban if they retake the House this fall. If elected to Congress, any of these extreme candidates would be a rubber stamp on further attacks to reproductive rights. Coloradans can’t let that happen.
DCCC Spokesperson Maddy Mundy
“Already, House Republicans are clamoring to take the Supreme Court’s assault on reproductive rights further and institute a nationwide abortion ban. The gleeful reactions to the overturn of Roe from Colorado Republican House candidates in the Democratic-leaning 7th and 8th Congressional Districts show that no matter who comes out of Tuesday’s Republican primaries, they will be a dangerous threat to Coloradans’ most fundamental rights.”
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