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4/15/26 **Legislative Alert on College Abortion Bill HB26-1335**

The college abortion bill, HB26-1335, Abortion Medication Access on College Campuses, has been scheduled for a committee hearing in the House Education Committee tomorrow, Thursday April 16th, at 1:30pm in HCR0107.  Please sign up to testify either in person or remotely on Zoom.

This bill mandates that colleges in Colorado, public and private, either provide the abortion pill to women in their health clinics or issue a prescription for the same. Although religious institutions that object to abortion based on their convictions are exempted, the bill treats private and public higher education institutions interchangeably thereby eliminating any meaningful differences in philosophy. They become de facto abortion advocates.

Women are harmed by mifepristone abortions through the abortion pill. Nearly 11% of women experience a serious adverse effect following the use of abortion drugs based on data analysis of over 860,000 mifepristone abortions conducted by the Ethics and Public Policy Center in 2025. The pre-born children always lose their lives in a successful abortion. Universities are forced into destroying pre-born lives and women’s health.

The Bible speaks specifically of pre-born children, whether wanted or not, and the miracle of life in Psalm 139, “For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well” (Psalm 139: 13,14 NKJV).

Please sign up to testify and contact your representative to urge them to vote no on HB26-1335!

Additionally, contact Representatives on the House Education Committee and ask them to oppose the bill.  They are:

In Him,

Colleen Enos

CHEC Director of Government Relations

colleen@chec.org

2/18/26 **Legislative Alert** Testify Against SB26-018 and Call

Update on SB26-018 – 2/18/26

 Section 2 of SB26-018, Legal Protections for the Dignity of Minors, concerning “Best Interests of the child” with all the problematic parental custody, parenting time and decision-making responsibilities language, was struck and amended out of the bill before testimony began in the committee hearing on February 18. 

The remainder of the bill, Section 1, concerning a minor requesting a name change and the court suppressing the record of the old and new name to anyone who is not a party to the case, was passed out of committee. 

This is still problematic for a non-custodial parent who believes in the biblical and biological design of two genders and is not in agreement with a name change due to gender identity. They would have no say in the process and may not even be aware of the change if the custodial parent agreed with the gender identity name change of the child. 

However, this is less of an issue than the overall problems of Section 2. 

CHEC was there to testify against this attack on parental rights. Thank you for praying!

 

SB26-018 – 2/16/26 

There is an unconstitutional attack on Parental Rights with SB26-018!

The bill SB26-018, Legal Protections for the dignity of Minors, is a reincarnation of last year’s HB25-1312, Legal Protections for Transgender Individuals. The Democratic bill sponsors Senators Katie Wallace and Chris Kolker, along with Representatives Meg Froelich and Lorena Garcia are bringing back a portion of last year’s HB25-1312, that was amended out of the bill. They have tweaked the language to remove the descriptor “coercive control” and instead the bill refers to the newly updated Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, which defines discrimination as including Gender Identity and Gender Expression.  People of faith that believe in biological truth are under attack.

Please sign up to testify against SB26-018 on Wednesday, February 18th at 1:30pm in person or remotely in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Additionally, Contact Senators on the Judiciary Committee and ask them to oppose the bill.  They are:

Senator Mike Weissman – Chair     303-866-4879         mike.weissman.senate@coleg.gov

Senator Dylan Roberts – Vice Chair 303-866-4871         dylan.roberts.senate@coleg.gov

Senator Lyndsey Daugherty            303-866-4840         lindsey.daugherty.senate@coleg.gov

Senator Nick Hinrichsen                 303-866-4878         nick.hinrichsen.senate@coleg.gov

Senator Katie Wallace                     303-866-5291         katie.wallace.senate@coleg.gov

 

Thank these two Senators for Opposing the bill:

Senator John Carson                       303-866-4881         john.carson.senate@coleg.gov

Senator Lynda Zamora Wilson        303-866-4835           lynda.zamorawilson.senate@coleg.gov

 

Some Talking Points to use:

  1. Parents have a fundamental right to direct their child’s upbringing, as established by the U.S. Supreme Court.
  2. Colorado courts should not prioritize state-defined “recognition” over parental convictions.
  3. Parents who hold traditional views on biology or gender should not be punished by losing or limiting parental influence.
  4. This bill violates the first amendment, freedom of speech and religion.
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