By: ACLU of Colorado This editorial by our Executive Director appeared in Sunday's Denver Post Colorado's anti-abortion extremists have a clear goal: They want to ban all abortions in all circumstances, even in cases of rape, incest, or when a woman's life is in danger. Twice, in 2008 and 2010, they gathered enough signatures for Colorado ballot initiatives that would have defined a fetus, or even a fertilized egg, as a legal person, subjecting women and their doctors to criminal liability and banning all abortion..... | Read More

By: Caryn Osterman Constitution Day is the one day a year when we take time to celebrate the signing of our Constitution — the supreme law of the United States — created by our Founding Fathers on September 17, 1787. This monumental document bestows our rights and freedoms and provides the framework for our government — both federal and state — and the relationship between the two.  It incorporates pivotal concepts of separation of power and checks and balances to ensure that no one branch of government.... | Read More

By: John Krieger Read this excellent Letter to the Editor, recently published in the Vail Daily, on the exoneration of a man who spent more than 30 years in prison facing the death penalty for a crime he did not commit.  George Mizner of Vail does an excellent job of laying out the many reasons that Colorado’s broken death penalty is part of an unjust system that does not deter crime and routinely executes innocent people: http://www.vaildaily.com/opinion/12900699-113/death-penalty-murder-percent?utm_source=swift_rss&utm_section=Opinion To.... | Read More

By: ACLU of Colorado Our Executive Director's editorial about Amendment 67 appeared this weekend in the Durango Herald. In it, he writes that "Neither the government nor religious crusaders should be allowed to intervene and take control of difficult, personal decisions best left to a woman and her doctor. Amendment 67 goes far beyond what it appears to be at first glance, threatening basic rights and opening a legal Pandora’s box that would be very hard to close because it would be written into the Colorado Constitution." Read.... | Read More

By: ACLU Blog of Rights From the ACLU National Blog of Rights, an important reminder of why we in Colorado can't afford to wait for marriage equality. By Chase Strangio, Staff Attorney, ACLU Life is full of unexpected ups and downs. Sometimes our greatest joys are followed by our deepest sorrows and through the good times and the bad we turn to our loved ones to guide and comfort us. But for same-sex couples, all too often the best and worst of life's moments become reminders of the second-class status that.... | Read More

By: John Krieger Our Public Policy Director, Denise Maes, was a featured contributor for a segment on Colorado State of Mind on Rocky Mountain PBS on Friday, August 22, where she discussed inmate abuse at the Denver jail, the events in Ferguson, Missouri, and militarization of Colorado law enforcement. Watch it here. | Read More