HUNDREDS HONOR STATE SEN. BETTY BOYD, MARK 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF NARAL PRO-CHOICE COLORADO CELEBRATION & AUCTION
For Immediate Release
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Contact: Kathryn Wittneben
NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado
Office: 303.394.1973, ext. 12
kwittneben@ProChoiceColorado.org EVENT PHOTOGRAPHS HUNDREDS HONOR STATE SEN. BETTY BOYD, MARK 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF NARAL PRO-CHOICE COLORADO CELEBRATION & AUCTION Annual gala attracts leaders from Colorado’s legislative, philanthropic and activist communities DENVER (May 15) – Hundreds of pro-choice legislators, activists, philanthropists and community leaders gathered at the Denver Marriott City Center on Saturday, May 5, to commemorate NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado’s 25th annual Choice Celebration and Auction. During the event, NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado honored State Senator Betty Boyd (D-Lakewood), sponsor of SB 60, Emergency Contraception Information for Sexual Assault Survivors, the first pro-choice legislation to be signed into law in nearly a decade. “We know that Coloradans across the state support a woman’s fundamental right to decide whether and when to have children. The overwhelming success of our annual celebration and auction reaffirms that it is a mainstream Colorado value for women to make the personal, private health care decisions that affect their lives in consultation with their doctors – not politicians,” said Kathryn Wittneben, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado. Also honored during the event were Meg Froelich, outgoing NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado board member, and Natasha Lamoreaux, outgoing president of NARAL Pro-Choice Auraria. “Each of the women honored Saturday exemplifies the qualities necessary to build and support the social movements needed to protect our basic civil liberties and rights, including leadership and vision, courage and commitment, and persistence and patience,” Wittneben said. “We are grateful to each for her efforts to support women’s reproductive rights and health care in Colorado.” Representing the evening’s theme of “Celebrating Choice is Always in Style,” local artists and fashion designers crafted more than 65 statuettes to showcase their commitment to reproductive rights and health care. The gala affair included live and silent auctions featuring hundreds of items donated from businesses and individuals throughout Colorado that support a woman’s fundamental right to choose whether to bear a child and to receive safe medical care. NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado (NPCC) is the political action arm of the pro-choice movement in Colorado. NPCC has more than 30,000 supporters statewide and works to develop and sustain a constituency that uses the political process to guarantee every woman the right to make personal decisions regarding the full range of reproductive health choices, including preventing unintended pregnancies, bearing healthy children and choosing legal abortion. ###Click on thumbnails for larger image 
John Powers, Congressman Ed Perlmutter (D-CD 7), and NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Executive Director Kathryn Wittneben; photograph by Susan English
Colorado State Representative Nancy Todd (D-HD 41), NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Executive Director Kathryn Wittneben, and Colorado State Representative Anne McGihon (D-HD 3); photograph by Susan English
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