Louise Melling Quotes

We certainly welcome the decision because it reaffirms [that] abortion laws have to include exceptions for health. It leaves it open for us to go back down to argue that the legislature intentionally omitted the health exception. We will ask the court to recognize that and strike it down in its entirety. - Louise Melling

This deceptive and extreme measure sacrifices women's health in the name of a broad anti-choice agenda to demonize abortion. The federal government has no business making it a crime for doctors to provide the best care possible to women who need abortions. - Louise Melling

Thirty years ago people thought that Roe would be a closed case, yet it is still in the headlines. There is a shifting political phenomenon in America. The fact that we have a hearing on a nominee who has not expressed approval for Roe is because we have a huge debate in the political realm about moral values. - Louise Melling

It would mean a doctor would have to wait until a teen faced a medical emergency. In that case the doctor, instead of going to a hospital, would have to go to court. - Louise Melling

Colorado had an opportunity to step up where the federal government has failed women. Emergency contraception is a safe and effective form of birth control that all women should have access to, yet foes of reproductive rights continue to put up roadblocks at every juncture. - Louise Melling

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