Please contact the members of the Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee and ask them to vote "No" on Senate Bill 95, Delay in Health Care. For a NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado fact sheet on this bill,
click here. A sample letter to your representative is provided below.
Be sure to include the following information in your e-mail, phone call, or letter:
Your address so your representative knows you live in the district.
The bill number and the position you would like your legislator to take: "Please vote NO on Senate Bill 95"
Explain in 2 or 3 sentences why you oppose Senate Bill 95.
If you are writing an e-mail, it helps to put “Vote NO on SB 95” in the subject line.
Sample Letter to the Members of the Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee:
Subject: Vote NO on SB 95, Delay in Health Care
Dear Members of the Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee:
I am concerned about Senate Bill 95 (Schultheis, Lundberg), "Delay in Health Care." This bill is up for a vote in Senate State, Veterans & Military Affairs on Monday, Feb. 11. I am asking you to please vote NO on SB 95.
Senate Bill 95 would allow the government to intrude in the relationship between a woman and her physician. Informed consent is an already established practice standard between a physician and his or her patient.
Doctors, not politicians, should decide what information and care is best for their patients. Trying to dictate what medical doctors say to their patients takes medicine and medical advice away from health care professionals.
The mandatory waiting period could increase the likelihood of complications: In some locations where doctors are available only one day a week, the mandatory waiting period could force the woman to wait more than 24 hours before receiving an abortion. This would affect the women living in the 78% of Colorado counties that have no abortion provider.
Finally, Senate Bill 95 does nothing to reduce the need for abortion. It fails to give Colorado women and their families the education and access to reproductive health services they need to make healthy, informed decisions about when to have a family and to how minimize the risk of unintended pregnancy.
I appreciate your consideration and again urge you to vote NO on SB 95. Please let me know how you cast your vote.
Thank you,
Your name
