Posted Oct. 10, 2024
On Monday, the Harris-Walz campaign’s national “Fighting for Reproductive Freedom” bus tour traveled to Colorado to rally voters at stops in Denver and Pueblo.
In Denver, MasterChef winner and activist Claudia Sandoval, Governor Jared Polis, U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper, Congresswoman Diana DeGette (CO-01), Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen (CO-07), and reproductive rights advocate Dani Newsum held a rally with Coloradans highlighting Vice President Harris and Governor Walz’s New Way Forward that will protect and restore reproductive rights across all 50 states.
“I am so proud to welcome this bus here because it confirms what we know to be true about this election: reproductive freedom is on the ballot,” said Congresswoman DeGette. “Vice President Harris and Governor Walz are charting a New Way Forward in which reproductive freedom is protected across the country because women—not politicians or the government – should be able to make decisions about their own bodies.”
Donald Trump’s overturning of Roe v. Wade unleashed devastating consequences for families across the country, with a disproportionate impact on communities of color.”
Dani Newsum, Cobalt Advocates
Speakers also slammed Donald Trump and J.D. Vance’s Project 2025 agenda that would give Trump unchecked control to ban abortion nationwide, restrict access to birth control, jeopardize access to IVF, and even allow states to monitor women’s pregnancies and miscarriages.
“Donald Trump’s overturning of Roe v. Wade unleashed devastating consequences for families across the country, with a disproportionate impact on communities of color,” said Dani Newsum, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Cobalt Advocates. “For Colorado women and their loved ones, the choice is clear. Abortion is on the ballot, and we must stop Donald Trump, JD Vance, and their extreme Project 2025 agenda at the polls.”
“Unlike Trump, Vice President Harris and Governor Walz actually care about American families,” said Congresswoman Pettersen. “Kamala Harris has been an unequivocal champion for reproductive freedom her entire career – and she will be our champion as President.”
In Pueblo, MasterChef winner and activist Claudia Sandoval, State Senator Nick Hinrichsen, State Representative Stephanie Vigil, Pueblo County Commissioner Daneya Esgar, and Monica Hughes, founder of Pueblo Pro-Choice, along with reproductive freedom advocates, held a rally at the Union Depot where speakers held Trump accountable for the devastating impacts of overturning Roe v. Wade, and warned that his dangerous Project 2025 agenda would further restrict women’s reproductive freedom here in Colorado and across the country.
“We all remember the day Roe fell. It was a day when millions of women lost the fundamental right to control their own bodies and futures. Because of Donald Trump, over one in three women of reproductive age now live in states with abortion bans – placing their lives at risk and threatening doctors with jail time. Many of these bans offer no exceptions for rape or incest. That includes more than 6 million Latinas who now live under a Trump abortion ban,” said Monica Hughes, Director of Pueblo Pro-Choice and Organizing Manager at Cobalt Advocates.
“Reproductive freedom is on the line this November. This is personal for us in Pueblo – as members of our own community look to roll back the reproductive health care people in our city rely on,” said Pueblo County Commissioner Daneya Esgar. “Donald Trump’s cruel policies are meant to stoke fear and divide us; he’s betting a scared and divided nation is how he wins this election. But all of us here today know Donald Trump is making the wrong bet.”
The stops in Denver and Pueblo are part of a national Fighting for Reproductive Freedom tour that is making more than 60 stops in key states, touching blue communities and red ones, with support for reproductive rights transcending party lines.
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