AGAINST OUR WILL How National Anti-Choice Groups are Targeting the Pro-Choice Majority in UPDATED FOR 2016

OPPOSITION REPORT | 1 Dear NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Friends and Allies: Last year, NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado released “Against Our Will: How Anti-Choice Forces Are Targeting the Pro-Choice Majority in Colorado.” The report outlined how national anti-choice organizations and their ‘legislation mills’ were trying to hijack the will of the voters here in Colorado. Bills were being introduced at the state legislature that weren’t written at the state legislature - they were ‘model legislation’ from a binder full of pre-made boilerplate pushed by these outside groups. In 2016, we saw these same and additional groups and individuals fighting choice and fighting a pro-active agenda that would expand access to contraception and family planning services. While we had some victories, such as fair treatment for pregnant women on the job and continued funding for the most successful contraception program in the country, we also saw a bill defeated that would have ensured all women could get the FDA-approved birth control they need without a copay. Colorado women and voters are still being denied the right to choose reproductive health care by non-Colorado extremist efforts. The groups fighting these pro-active pro-choice bills are why we updated the report. And it’s also a look forward to the next wave of anti-choice ideas and bills they will come up with next to restrict abortion rights. Abortion bans and religious refusals to provide health care loom on the horizon, as do more so-called “crisis pregnancy centers”, which try to shame women out of abortion care. Having lost at the Supreme Court, these anti-choice organizations will be redoubling their efforts at the state level. This updated report is an effort to keep you informed of what they’re doing and what’s next. NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado stands with Colorado women as we have for almost 50 years. We hope you will stand with us and for our state’s longstanding pro-choice values. Please read the report, give us feedback on the information, and we welcome your ideas on how to improve it further. Sincerely,

Karen Middleton Executive Director NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado

2 | NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Against Our Will (1.2017) AGAINST OUR WILL How National Anti-Choice Groups are Targeting the Pro-Choice Majority in Colorado

In 1973 the Supreme Court handed down a seven to two ruling in the landmark case of Roe v. Wade that declared a Texas state law banning abortions was unconstitutional. Recent polling indicates only 20 percent of Americans want Roe v. Wade overturned, down from 31 percent in 2003 and 34 percent in 1992.i, ii Support for Roe has Sarah Weddington remained steady, and actually has increased in recent years. In 2016, despite 7 in 10 Americans not wanting Roe v. Wade overturned, anti-choice groups continue to push their ideologically motivated legislative agenda on the pro-choice majority. Americans draw a stark line between their judgements of morality for a private decision such as abortion and what they think the government should ban.iii This reiterates that a majority of Americans know that their personal, moral, or religious beliefs should not interfere with the individual and very personal decisions of women regarding the range of reproductive options. A recently published peer-reviewed study found that, of the sample population of hundreds of women who had abortions, more than 95 percent reported that an abortion was the right decision for them, even over the three years following their decision.iv Colorado is unique as it has seen four attempts to establish personhood with a statewide ballot initiative campaign. In 2008, 2010 and 2014, it was a statewide ballot measure. In 2012, there were not enough verifiable signatures collected to place the measure on the ballot. In 2014 Colorado voters handily defeated a third attempt at establishing personhood since 2008, with 64.87% of voters rejecting Amendment 67.v Life News admitted that the Amendment did not exempt abortion and thus was unconstitutional.vi

OPPOSITION REPORT | 3 Three statewide ballot measures caused voters to discuss the issue of abortion access in a direct manner, and galvanized support for the general notion that Colorado voters do not support a ban on abortion. This is distinctive at a time when more than 500 anti-choice bills have been introduced in state legislatures across the country, and over 230 anti-choice bills have been passed into law since 2010. These repeated statewide votes, alongside polling results of both national and state-specific “7 in 10” research positions, further indicates Colorado voters show a strong preference for pro-choice government and strong opposition to attempts to limit access to abortion.

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Despite this data and relative consistency of position, Americans United for Life, Alliance Defending Freedom, Personhood USA, the Susan B. Anthony List and Care Net are intent on forcing their anti-choice agenda on the pro-choice majority around the country, including opening a new front in Colorado. The 2016 edition of “Against Our Will: How National Anti-Choice Groups Are Targeting the Pro-Choice Majority in Colorado,” contains new information on Personhood USA and Care Net, as well as the Susan B. Anthony List and their research branch the Charlotte Lozier Institute. It also includes new data and research concerning Crisis Pregnancy Centers in Colorado.

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19 AMERICANS UNITED FOR LIFE 30 Americans United for Life (AUL) is an anti-choice organization based in

Washington, D.C.,2011 intent on reversing2012 the Roe v. Wade2013 decision and enacting2014 fetal personhood legislation throughout the country.vii In fact, the organization calls itself the “legal architect of the pro-life movement.”viii This assertion is evidenced by the fact that of the 118 state laws passed restricting abortion access from 2011 to 2014, nearly one third were based on model legislation from the AUL or with assistance from AUL staff and supporters.ix

NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado AUL Action, the legislative arm of the organization, provides personnel to offer witness testimonies during committee hearings, including General Counsel Ovide Lamontagne and Executive Director Dr. Charmaine Yoest. To be clear, Dr. Yoest is not a medical doctor—she has a Ph.D. in politics, though that is rarely disclosed in hearings unless asked by a legislator to clarify.x

OPPOSITION REPORT | 5 The organization’s annual publication Defending Life summarizes “life” legislation “AUL asserts that their model by state, with a ranking of the states their success in passing “life” legislation and a list of model legislative priorities for each state.xi The final component of the publication legislation “enables legislators are model legislation outlines for bills such as Women’s Health Protection Act, the to easily introduce bills without Women’s Ultrasound Right to Know Act, and the Crimes Against the Unborn Child Act. needing to research and Sound familiar? They should—AUL has worked in all 50 states to try to impose this anti-choice legislation under the guise of protecting women’s health.xii By promoting write the bills themselves. these model bills under the façade of women’s health, AUL is attempting to impede abortion access one step at a time with the end goal of overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating a woman’s right to make her own reproductive choices. AUL asserts that their model legislation “enables legislators to easily introduce bills without needing to research and write the bills themselves.”xiii This means that legislators who introduce bills based on this model legislation do not have to think through the bills they are introducing and might not fully understand the requirements and implications of such bills, relying instead on the misleading titles. One example of misleading anti-choice model legislation is the dubiously named Women’s Right to Know Act, which would introduce fetal personhood language into the law and mandate that women have an ultrasound at least 24 hours prior to an abortion. This effectively requires the patient to make two separate visits to the clinic, with optional sections on sharing information on supposed fetal pain and the unsupported claim of chemical abortion reversal.xiv The ultrasound image must be “of a quality consistent with standard medical practice in the community.”xv For those women seeking an abortion at or before 12 weeks of pregnancy, which accounted for 89 percent of abortions in 2010, this would require a transvaginal ultrasound, wherein a 10 inch medical probe is inserted into the vagina.xvi,xvii Legislators who run these bills appear to be advised to claim they are not transvaginal ultrasound bills, when in reality, that is the logical outcome of their legislation.xvi,xvii AUL is a partner organization of World Congress of Families (WCF), an organization explicitly opposed to homosexuality, divorce, and women’s choice.xviii, xix In the April 2009 WCF newsletter, Dr. Yoest was applauded for her contributions to the “pro-family movement.” On the page following WCF’s positive note on Uganda’s resistance to legalize homosexuality in consideration of a law that would penalize same- sex relations and was ultimately given the nickname of the “Kill the Gays” bill by the media.xx,xxi In addition, William Saunders, Senior Vice President for Legal Affairs and Senior Counsel for AUL spoke at the 2004 and 2009 WCF Congresses opposing not only abortion, but also stem cell research and in vitro fertilization.xxii, xxiii

6 | NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Against Our Will (1.2017) AUL also joined with Alliance Defending Freedom to file an amicus brief opposing in vitro fertilization in Costa Rica.xxiv In 2016 Colorado legislators introduced five bills and one resolution based on AUL model legislation:

BILL NUMBER BILL TITLE SPONSOR HOUSE SPONSOR SENATE HB-1007 Offenses Against Reps. [R], Gordon Klingenschmitt [R], (failed to pass Unborn Children Lois Landgraf [R], [R], House committee) , [R] [R], , [R] JoAnn Windholz, [R] HB-1218 Women’s Health Reps. [R],Lori Saine [R], Sens. Randy Baumgardner, [R] Kim Grantham [R], (failed to pass Protection Act Stephen Humphrey [R], Clarice Navarro [R], [R], [R], Senate committee) [R], [R], Kevin Lundberg [R], Vicki Marble [R], [R], Kim Ransom [R], Laura Woods [R] JoAnn Windholz [R]

HB-1146 Born Alive Infant Reps. [R], Gordon Klingenschmitt [R], (failed to pass Protection Act Lois Landgraf [R] House committee)

HB-1203 Women’s Health Reps. Kathleen Conti [R], [R], (failed to pass Protection Act Perry Buck [R], Justin Everett [R], House committee) Stephen Humphrey [R], Janak Joshi [R], Tim Leonard [R], Lois Landgraf [R], Paul Lundeen [R],Clarice Navarro [R], Patrick Neville [R], Dan Nordberg [R], Kim Ransom [R], Lori Saine [R], [R], JoAnn Windholz [R]

HB-1218 Protect Human Life Reps. Jon Becker [R], J Paul Brown [R], Sens. John Cooke [R], Kim Grantham [R], (failed to pass at Conception Perry Buck [R], Justin Everett [R], Chris Holbert [R], Kent Lambert [R], Senate committee) Stephen Humphrey [R], Janak Joshi [R], Kevin Lundberg [R], Vicki Marble [R], Gordon Klingenschmitt [R], Polly Lawrence [R], [R], Laura Woods [R] Paul Lundeen [R], Clarice Navarro [R], Patrick Neville [R], Dan Nordberg [R], Kevin Priola [R], Kim Ransom [R], Lori Saine [R], Kevin Van Winkle [R], James Wilson [R], Yeulin Willett [R], Cole Wist [R], JoAnn Windholz [R]

HB-1218 Concerning Fetal Reps. Jon Becker [R], J Paul Brown [R], Sens. Kevin Lundberg [R], (failed to pass Tissue Transfer Perry Buck [R], Terri Carver [R], Randy Baumgardner [R], Senate committee) Timothy Dore [R], Justin Everett [R], Kent Lambert [R], Stephen Humphrey [R], Janak Joshi [R], Jerry Sonnenberg [R] Gordon Klingenschmitt [R], Lois Landgraf [R], Tim Leonard [R], Paul Lundeen [R], Clarice Navarro [R], Patrick Neville [R], Dan Nordberg [R], Kim Ransom [R], Lori Saine [R], Kevin Van Winkle [R]

* See summary at: http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2016a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/5EC6D792F6982F2A87257F240063FC26?open&file=1200_01.pdf

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PERSONHOOD USA Based in Denver, Personhood USA strives to institute legal personhood for fetuses at the time of conception in all state constitutions and on a federal level, effectively reversing Roe v. Wade and banning all abortions. The personhood movement allows no exceptions, stating in their Why Personhood eBook “We’ve seen how compromise on “exceptions” like rape and incest have undermined the pro-life message and violated our most sacred principles.”lxxix Fetal Personhood would give fetuses the same rights as an American citizen. This would cause abortion to be considered homicide and would ban forms of contraceptives that prevent implantation. Along with banning these types of contraceptives, personhood could also restrict pregnant women’s access to any medications that could be considered harmful to the fetus, as well as ban in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and stem cell research. IVF works by creating more embryos than will be implanted in the womb.lxxxvi Personhood advocates believe that all of these embryos must be carried to term and therefore IVF should either be “reformed” or banned. Fetal personhood could also require every stillbirth and miscarriage to be investigated as a possible homicide, since under personhood laws, a miscarriage would be considered the death of a person. It also poses problems when a woman has an ectopic pregnancy. An ectopic pregnancy happens when the fertilized egg implants itself somewhere other than the uterus, such as the fallopian tubes, and is incredibly dangerous for the pregnant woman. These pregnancies are not viable, are extremely painful and can even result in the death of the mother if not removed.lxxx With the ectopic egg being considered a person under personhood measures but unable to survive, doctors are forced into an impossible position of being unable to provide their patients necessary medical care while also not being able to uphold their oaths of helping save their patients. The goals of many of these bills are to intimidate doctors into not performing abortion care.

8 | NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Against Our Will (1.2017) The Personhood movement is widespread and found in all 50 states and Personhood USA as a grassroots organization has established formal chapters in 30. lxxxi They pair “In 2016, there was no with organizations in countries all over Europe and Latin America, and even have 3 liaisons to the United Nations. These liaisons’ job is to lobby the United Nations to organized effort to place a shape their post-2015 agenda which will be implemented around the world, effecting personhood measure onto the primarily resources in third world countries.lxxxii Colorado statewide ballot. The Personhood USA logo is that of a fingerprint. In their words, “The fingerprint is the symbol of a unique human being, one that has never existed before and will never exist again… It is as if God himself wanted to ensure that none of his children are ever forgotten.”lxxxiii Personhood Colorado managed to get enough signatures in 2008, 2010, and 2014 to put their measure on the ballot. All three of these ballot measures were defeated, once again affirming Coloradans’ pro-choice views. In 2012 Personhood Colorado attempted to put personhood on the ballot again, but was unable to acquire enough valid signatures.lxxxiv In 2016, there was no organized effort to place a personhood measure onto the Colorado statewide ballot. The founder of Personhood USA, Keith Mason, still runs the organization today with his wife Jennifer. Jennifer and Keith met while protesting outside an abortion clinic and got married 5 months later.lxxxv While Keith heads the organization, Jennifer focuses on communications and education, specifically education for high school students. She is routinely used as a public face for the organization and has worked in the anti-choice movement for roughly 10 years.

OPPOSITION REPORT | 9 Before founding Personhood USA, Keith Mason worked for a plethora of anti-choice “Slavery is repugnant, but to use organizations including: Survivors of the Unborn Holocaust and Operation Rescue. it in this context is unacceptable lxxxvi, lxxxvii Operation Rescue picketed and harassed Dr. George Tiller, a late-term and unfeeling.” abortion provider in Kansas, for months. Dr. Tiller was ultimately murdered by Scott Roeder, a former member of Operation Resuce, although they deny his membership. ~ Rep. , D-Aurora cvi This group also started the Truth Trucks which drive around the country displaying graphic images to deter people from having abortions and supporting those who do not have an abortion. To define the personhood movement and attempt to make it more accessible to more people, members often create a parallel between personhood for fetuses and the 400 year long Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, which allowed white Americans to own fellow human beings as property. Their argument is that under the Three-Fifths Compromise, slaves were not considered full persons just as today fetuses are not considered persons under the law.

10 | NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Against Our Will (1.2017) Personhood USA’s Why Personhood eBook cites the Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court case as a reason that they cannot expect the Supreme Court to change their decision regarding Roe v. Wade.lxxix This is why Personhood organizations focus on grassroots and introducing personhood at levels as low as city council. In fact, step one of Take Action in the Why Personhood eBook is “Introduce a personhood resolution at your local city council” and includes a sample resolution below.lxxix “Personhood USA is persistent on establishing personhood throughout the country, regardless of the pro-choice majority’s view. Along with their attempt to undermine the Roe v. Wade Supreme court ruling through local resolutions and state constitution amendments, Personhood USA uses another method of pushing their anti-choice agenda, by targeting Planned Parenthood. Personhood USA is the group that started the hashtag #ObamasWallet. Recent anti-choice extremist remarks targeting republican legislators such as Senator Mitch McConnell for their funding of Planned Parenthood with taxpayer dollars, are also Personhood USA’s work.lxxxviii Their goal is to elect politicians that are even more anti-choice in vulnerable states so that they can further restrict a woman’s right to the health care she needs.

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ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is an anti-choice, anti-LGBT legal organization based in Scottsdale, AZ, that emphasizes, “the right of people to freely live out their faith.”xxv Formerly the Alliance Defense Fund, ADF was founded by fundamentalist Christians and remains a “Christ-centered ministry” intent on codifying and protecting what it refers to as religious liberty.xxvi The ADF website lists a wide array of organizational allies, but a common conservative Christian thread runs through nearly all of them. Allies include Advocates International, the American Center for Law and Justice, the American Freedom Law Center, Americans United for Life, the Bioethics Defense Fund, the Center for Religious Expression, the Christian Law Association, the Federalist Society, the Thomas More Law Center, the Family Research Council, the Heritage Foundation, and Focus on the Family, among others.xxvii ADF also has over 2,400 allied attorneys who take on pro-bono cases and research involving what ADF deems challenges to religious freedom. xxviii These include opposition to bills that provide a harassment-free space around abortion clinics and policies that support a safe space for students who identify as part of the LGBT community.xxix, xxx During the 2015 legislative session in Colorado, ADF senior counsel Michael J. Norton testified on at least six bills, of which four were based on model legislation from Americans United for Life.xxxi He represented Colorado Family Action, an anti-choice organization associated with CitizenLink, Focus on the Family, ADF, and Family Research Council, on at least four bills and Colorado Christian University on one bill.xxxii Norton’s wife Jane, former Colorado Lieutenant Governor under Bill Owens from 2003 to 2007, is a Centennial Institute Fellow, advising policy in support of Colorado Christian University’s strategic objectives.xxxiii ADF is also notable for their efforts opposing LGBT equality and supplying model legislation to overturn LGBT protection, particularly as a backlash to the Supreme Court’s marriage equality decision. As noted in the Freedom For All Americans report, Enemies of Equality, “17 bills in 14 states that target transgender Americans “used almost identical language and it’s based off of a model policy ADF started pushing four to five months ago.”cii All told, there are more than 200 anti-LGBT bills pending in 34 states.

12 | NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Against Our Will (1.2017) The report continues, “Though resources pool at the top, ADF’s network is particularly well-coordinated across states. It utilizes state-based organizations (often “In 2010 and 2011 ADF called a “Family Institute” or “Policy Council”) to push out its messaging at the local level and organize grassroots action.”cii donated a total of $20,000 to ADF is also a proponent of Religious Freedom Reformation Acts, or Rep. Klingenschmitt’s The Pray in RFRAs. ADF attorney Joseph La Rue testified in favor of Arizona’s SB- Jesus Name Project, which is listed 1062 in 2014, and ADF attorney Doug Napier criticized Arizona Governor as an anti-LGBT hate group by Jan Brewer’s decision to veto the controversial bill.xxxiv Anderson Cooper reported that ADF representatives, along with the Center for Arizona the Southern Poverty Law Center. Policy, “didn’t just push for the bill, they also helped write the bill.”xxxv RFRAs would not just legalize discrimination against same-sex couples and LGBTQ individuals for religious reasons, but would also, for example, allow pharmacists and pharmacies to refuse to fill valid birth control, emergency contraception, or other prescriptions if they objected on religious grounds. A member of ADF’s litigation counsel Kellie Fiedorek stood behind Indiana Governor Mike Pence at the private signing of the RFRA bill in 2014, and ADF senior counsel Michael J. Norton testified on behalf of Colorado HB15-1171, a “State Freedom of Conscience Protection Act,” sponsored by Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt (R-HD15, Colorado Springs), which died in committee in March 2015.xxxvi In 2010 and 2011 ADF donated a total of $20,000 to Rep. Klingenschmitt’s The Pray in Jesus Name Project, which is listed as an anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. xxxvii, xxxviii, xxxix In a published list of perceived attacks from the Obama administration on religious freedom, ADF includes actions such as: • Signing the “Hate Crimes” law; • Requiring federal housing programs to recognize and allow families with same-sex couples; • Recording an introduction to Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey; • Approving over-the-counter sale of Plan B emergency contraception to women of any age, including those under age 18; • Allowing the Air Force Academy to permit cadets to opt-out of saying “So help me God” at the end of the honor code; and • Issuing a commemorative stamp of assassinated GLBT leader Harvey Milk.xl

OPPOSITION REPORT | 13 In 2003, ADF Counsel of Record Glen Lavy submitted an amicus brief on behalf of the Texas law criminalizing sodomy between same-sex couples.xli When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws criminalizing gay sex, ADF emphasized their perseverance in criminalizing, or not decriminalizing, gay sex.xlii That same year, ADF President and CEO Alan Sears co-authored the 2003 book The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today with Craig Osten.xliii ADF efforts to criminalize gay sex go beyond just the United States. The Southern Poverty Law Center asserted in 2013 that ADF supplied lawyers and legal advice in a case in Belize seeking to maintain the criminalization of gay sex, punishable by a 10-year sentence.xliv Local Belizean Pastor Scott Stirm, an advocate of the anti-sodomy law, admitted that ADF had provided “advice, legal assistance and strategies” to uphold the criminality of same-sex relation.xlv Speaking in reference to the 2013 decision of the India Supreme Court to uphold criminalization of same-sex intercourse, ADF International Executive Director Benjamin Bull declared, “When given the same choice the Supreme Court of the United States had in Lawrence vs. Texas, the Indian Court did the right thing.”xlvi ADF’s anti-choice rhetoric is extreme. Sofia Martinez, legal counsel for ADF International in Latin America, opposed a Colombian law that would include “abortion as a right for women in armed conflict who are victims of sexual violence.”xlvii ADF also supported Costa Rica’s ban on in vitro fertilization filing an amicus brief in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.xlviii, xlix Bull opposes any form of civil union or domestic partnership that is not marriage, in the “traditional” sense of the word, as well as families that lack the “legitimacy” of a marriage.l

14 | NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Against Our Will (1.2017) Alliance Defending Freedom (and formerly the Alliance Defense Fund) is a partner of the World Congress of Families (WCF), an organization explicitly Alliance Defending Freedom (and opposed to women’s choice, homosexuality, and divorce.li, lii In 2013 ADF International Executive Director Benjamin Bull was on the WCF planning formerly the Alliance Defense committee for the Congress to be held in Moscow in 2014. In Moscow the Fund) is a partner of the Congress also discussed a special forum with Yelena Mizulina, one of the forces World Congress of Families (WCF), behind Russia’s law banning promotion of homosexual rights to minors.liii,liv an organization explicitly opposed At various WCF conferences, ADF executives and representatives have presented on how hate speech laws and anti-discrimination laws take away religious liberty to women’s choice, and freedom of expression. In 2007, 2009, and 2012 ADF International Executive homosexuality, and divorce. Director Benjamin Bull spoke on the “traditional” family, including how the aspects of hate speech laws that are “particularly problematic for Christians in particular” are those that refer to perceived critical speech of homosexual behavior and “bans on any expression criticizing aspects of another religious belief system.”lv,lvi,lvii Titles of other WCF presentations from ADF personnel include: • “Hate Speech Laws and Anti-Discrimination to Marginalize Believers,” Paul Coleman, 2012;lviii • “Violation of Rights of Conscience: Plenary Session: The Homosexual Lobby,” Roger Kiska, 2012;lix • “The Homosexual Legal Agenda Religious, Freedom and Family: Plenary Session: The Homosexual Agenda,” Alan Sears, 2012;lx and • “The Threat from Transnationalist Progressivism: Sexual Orientation and International Law,” Piero A. Tozzi, 2012.lxi

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SUSAN B. ANTHONY LIST Susan B. Anthony herself did The Susan B. Anthony List is a nationwide anti-choice organization based in not found the organization but Washington D.C.. Susan B. Anthony was a schoolteacher and leader in the women’s they use her renowned name suffrage movement. She traveled the country for many years fighting for a woman’s right to vote, right to equal pay, a woman’s right to own property and the abolition of to garner support. slavery.lxxxix Susan B. Anthony herself did not found the organization but they use her renowned name to garner support. Their goals are to “restore an authentic feminism”, make abortion illegal in all circumstances and to defund Planned Parenthood. This organization mainly works through electing anti-choice legislators, specifically women, and by supporting and proposing legislation such as the pain-capable babies or fetal pain legislation, which would outlaw abortion after 20 weeks.xc Dedicated to helping the Susan B. Anthony List elect anti-choice women and men to positions of power is the Women Speak Out Super Pac. The Women Speak Out Pac believes that “the only “War on Women” is in the womb itself.”xc During the 2012 election year the members of this super Pac knocked on thousands of doors and made thousands of calls to gather support for their candidates but support for anti-choice extremists isn’t all they do. They often attack pro-choice candidates and elected officials such as New Hampshire Representative Kuster who has been endorsed by NARAL Pro-Choice America.xci Their press releases champion the effort and success of their anti-choice campaigning in close races throughout the country.

16 | NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Against Our Will (1.2017) The Susan B. Anthony List often testifies on model legislation from groups like AUL across the country. During the 2016 legislative session in Colorado, the research branch of the Susan B. Anthony List, called the Charlotte Lozier Institute, testified in support of HB16-1218.xcii The bill titled Women’s Reproductive Information Guarantee For Health And Transparency (Right) Act would require 2 appointments to get an abortion: one for the abortion provider “to provide certain information to the woman” and then another at least 24 hours later for the actual procedure. These bills are commonly referred to as “mandatory waiting period” bills and have been found to impede low income women’s access to abortion care. HB16-1218 also requires that the woman see an ultrasound, and frequently references fetuses as “unborn children,” which instills dangerous precedent in Colorado law.xciii This bill was introduced in order to deter women from having abortions and insinuates that they do not fully understand what they are doing and have not already thought about the decision they have made. Leaders from the Susan B. Anthony List are known for supporting controversial figures such as Congressman Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock. You may remember Congressman Akin because of his statement “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”xciv Regardless of Akin’s blatantly wrong and offensive statement, the Susan B. Anthony List continued to support him and his campaign for senate.xcv

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THE CHARLOTTE LOZIER INSTITUTE The Charlotte Lozier Institute is the research branch of the Susan B. Anthony List and to say that they take liberties with information is an understatement. Their research is extremely biased, inaccurate and misleading, as evidenced by this statement from their website: “The Charlotte Lozier Institute is committed to bringing the power of science, medicine, and research to bear in life-related policy making, media, and debates to promote a culture and polity of life.”xcvi Their research paper titled The Reality of Late-Term Abortion Procedures stated “significant limiting factor of the study is the fact that the authors excluded women who sought abortion for reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment, without commenting on how large of a cohort this represented.”xcvii This research was then used to conclude that pro-choice activists have been lying to the populous about why late term abortions are performed. Their research says that it is not usually for reasons such as fetal abnormalities or the imminent death of the mother but for reasons such as not being financially stable or for simply not wanting children. We know from heartbreaking personal accounts that late term abortions are routinely utilized by women in complicated situations dealing with much wanted pregnancies.cvii The Charlotte Lozier Institute also produces fact sheets on everything from Government Funding Sources For Planned Parenthood to The Science of Fetal Pain.xcvi The information they provide is further used by the Susan B. Anthony List to misguide the recipients and push the anti-choice agenda.

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CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERS “New report: crisis pregnancy IN COLORADO centers target and lie to women Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) are a national network of generally unlicensed, about abortion options, naral pro- and unregulated religious extremist anti-choice organizations posing as comprehensive health care clinics, organized by the anti-choice movement to discourage women choice america finds. from choosing abortion. Also referred to as Pregnancy Resource Centers, CPCs do not provide appropriate support and information so that women facing unintended pregnancy can understand all of their options, but instead provide misleading or inaccurate medical information. In addition, the vast majority of clinics across the country do not employ medical doctors, provide medical treatments, test for STDs or CRISIS PREGNANCY STIs, nor administer any type of health care screenings, including for breast cancer. CENTERS LIE: THE INSIDIOUS THREAT TO REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM CPCs consistently use false or misleading advertising to pose as women’s clinics to lure in women with unplanned pregnancies, despite often not having a doctor on staff. CPC workers and volunteers use anti-abortion rhetoric with information that is neither medically nor scientifically accurate. Reports indicate that CPCs intentionally misinform women seeking pregnancy-related information.lxii, lxiii A special investigation by the Committee on Government Reform published False and Misleading Health Information Provided by Federally Funded Pregnancy Resource Centers in July 2006, which found that 20 out of the 23 CPCs investigated provided false and/or misleading information regarding a link between breast cancer and abortion, about the effects of abortion on future fertility, and about the mental health effects of abortion.lxiv They form the core of Whole Women’s Health v Hellerstedt, the case heard at the Supreme Court in March 2016. And on June 27, 2016, the Supreme Court affirmed the right to abortion in Roe v Wade and ruled that these types of laws are in fact unconstitutional. We believe that the will of Colorado voters and 40 years of settled law in Roe v Wade should be respected by the Colorado General Assembly and that attacks on women’s health should be soundly defeated.

OPPOSITION REPORT | 19 As a Family Research Council report made clear, CPCs target women with lxv “Because CPC employees typically unplanned pregnancies who are considering abortion. NARAL Pro-Choice America published a report on its investigation of CPCs, documenting the anti- are not medical professionals or choice tactics used to prevent a woman from having full information to make her doctors, there is no confidentiality own decisions about her pregnancy.lxvi So-called counselors at CPCs are routinely lxvii law governing their actions even if not licensed, but instead are ideologically-motivated peer counselors. A yearlong investigation into pregnancy centers found that many centers the CPC claims confidentiality. shame and harass women who may consider abortion or even adoption, using rhetoric supplied by their umbrella organizations such as Care Net or Heartbeat International. CPCs advertise by suggesting a discussion of options, but do not advertise their ideologically-motivated views or the fact that those options do not include abortion or future contraception.lxviii One woman who visited a CPC in New York wrote an account of her experience: “I viewed a 25 minute film about the consequences of abortion. The male narrator described possible adverse events, including how collateral damage from abortions can lead to my intestines being sucked through my vagina and that “most women” who experience “blood complications” “will die.””ciii This kind of misinformation is commonly distributed through CPCs to deceive and scare women into carrying their pregnancy to term regardless of whether or not they desire to remain pregnant.

20 | NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Against Our Will (1.2017) Although individual CPCs may disguise their purpose by saying that they provide full information, the national CPC networks emphasize their anti-choice views in mission and vision statements. For Care Net, that means “a culture where women and men faced with pregnancy decisions are transformed by the gospel of Jesus Christ and empowered to choose life for their unborn children and abundant life for their families.” lxxii The National Institute of Family and Life Advocates aims to achieve an “abortion-free America.”lxxiii Heartbeat International wants “to make abortion unwanted today and unthinkable for future generations.”lxxiv

58 34 58 21 Fort Collins 21 34 57 Sterling 57 Fort Collins 32 48 40 48 40 Sterling Steamboat Craig 32 Greely 10 Steamboat 10 Springs 47 Springs 47 Greely 37 35 37 35 7 43 8 7 Boulder 43 8 52 Boulder 41 5287 55 52 55 12 41 5287 4 30 33 548787 54 12 54 4 30 33 8787 36 5 52 54 36 5 52 Glenwood 68 Breckenridge DENVER Breckenridge DENVER 9 Glenwood 68 9 Springs Springs 64 64 39 39 Montrose 62 Aspen 62 Grand 161 Grand Junction 11 11 161 22 19 Junction 22 19 Colorado Colorado 36 13 Springs 36 13 Springs Montrose Salida 53 Montrose Salida 53 56 Pueblo 45 56 Pueblo 45 42 42 Telluride Telluride 60 60 20 64 20 81 51 51 64 59 81 59 Cortez Montrose Cortez Alamosa Durango Pagosa Springs Trinidad Durango Pagosa Springs Trinidad

This map shows the approximate location of crisis pregnancy centers (red) compared to abortion providers (blue). CPCs outnumber abortion providers in Colorado by approximately three to one.

OPPOSITION REPORT | 21 NATIONAL ORGANIZATION INTENT ON ROLLING BACK REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE

CARE NET Care Net is a network and support group for crisis pregnancy centers founded in 1975 and based out of Lansdowne, Virginia. The Care Net vision, as stated above, is that life begins at conception and states their vision as “Care Net envisions a culture where women and men faced with pregnancy decisions are transformed by the gospel of Jesus Christ and empowered to choose life for their unborn children and abundant life for their families.”lxxii Care Net claims to have over 1,000 crisis pregnancy centers in North America. They claim that 62% of their funding comes from general donations and 80% of all their money goes towards “provider and outreach programs”.xcviii Care Net also employs what they call the Pregnancy Decision Line.xcix This is a phone number women call seeking help for both pregnancy resources and abortion resources. When asking for abortion resources women are met with only information concerning why they should not have an abortion and none of the resources they’ve asked for. During the 2016 legislative session in Colorado, a Care Net employee testified in support of the Women’s Reproductive Information Guarantee For Health And Transparency (Right) Act, the Women’s Health Protection Act, the Offenses Against Unborn Children Act, and Protect Human Life At Conception.c All four of these bills’ aim was to restrict abortion access or to outlaw all abortions. Ironically, Care Net did not testify in support or opposition to Employer Accommodations Related To Pregnancy, a bill designed to help pregnant women stay employed for her and her family’s benefit. In fact, during the HB16-1218 (Women’s Reproductive Information Guarantee For Health and Transparency (Right) Act) committee hearing, when asked by Representative of Pueblo, “What do you do and how do you help a woman who’s gone to you and received this information and still says I would still like an abortion? How do you direct them at his point?” Care Net representative Yvonne Williams replied, “We do not recommend, provide, or refer for abortion, but there are the yellow pages.”xcii Care Net frequently gives aid to anti-choice efforts yet fails to help pregnant women when it counts.

22 | NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Against Our Will (1.2017) IN COLORADO Colorado has more than 60 CPCs across 33 counties; these counties contain over 95 percent of Colorado women aged 15 to 44. Colorado has no policy in place “CPCs often set up offices near supporting CPCs, but the 2015 accepted the Senate Resolution family planning clinics and/or Concerning Pregnancy Resource Centers, model legislation from Americans United for Life, which indicated support for pregnancy resource centers, and included the phrase abortion providers in order to “babies—both born and unborn.”lxix, lxx Although this resolution does not designate intercept women who might funds, it does explicitly endorse government assistance to pregnancy resource centers as consider abortion. well as support problematic legal language. Care Net and Americans United for Life, emphasized their support for Colorado’s SR15-003.lxxi Colorado State Senator Larry Crowder, whose wife is the executive director of San Luis Valley Women’s Resource Center (a Care Net affiliate), spoke in support of the measure sponsored by Senator Kevin Lundberg.lxxv Because CPC employees typically are not medical professionals or doctors, there is no confidentiality law governing their actions even if the CPC claims confidentiality. CPCs can continue to harass a woman after leaving the clinic, such as by contacting the parents of minors to inform them of their daughter’s sexual activity or by contacting a woman via phone or mail. For women in abusive home situations, this can present a dangerous situation. CPCs often set up offices near family planning clinics and/or abortion providers in order to intercept women who might consider abortion. For instance, the following three CPCs are located less than 0.6 miles from a Planned Parenthood clinic that offers abortion services: • Lighthouse Women’s Center (Denver); • Real Choices Pregnancy Care Center (Boulder); and • Colorado Springs Pregnancy Center’s Westside. The organization Life Choices has 5 locations in Colorado. They have crisis pregnancy centers in Longmont, Loveland, Brighton, Estes Park and the North Metro area. Along with these five centers, Life Choices also employs ultrasound RVs that travel the Front Range.101 Life Choices provides everything a typical crisis pregnancy center does and additionally offers sex education and post-abortion counseling.

OPPOSITION REPORT | 23 COLORADO CPC CONNECTIONS Senator Owen Hill serves on the board of Save the Storks, an organization that provides mobile units for CPCs to target women who might consider getting an abortion, by stationing outside of universities and in front of clinics that provide abortion services.lxxvi, lxxvii Kathi DelGrosso, mother of Rep. Brian DelGrosso served on the board of directors for Life Choices Pregnancy Centers through at least 2013, though the CPC does not list its current board of directors anymore.lxxviii

WHAT THIS MEANS FOR COLORADO Unlike other states, Colorado’s longstanding support for abortion rights and legislators who support this has prevented these laws passing here. However, the margins in the 2016 Colorado Legislature were razor thin, often by a single vote in committee. Without due diligence on where these laws come from, knowing who is behind the curtain, and holding legislators accountable for their votes, women and doctors in Colorado could easily be facing the same barriers as other states. We cannot let that happen. That’s why NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado exists, and why you should check our website regularly for updates and sign up for alerts.

24 | NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Against Our Will (1.2017) CONCLUSION These anti-choice laws are part of a decades-long effort by national anti-choice groups and funders to overturn Roe at the state level. They are an attempt to make it as difficult, humiliating and expensive as possible for women – especially low-income women – to access abortion care. These laws are political, not medical, and undercut sound medical practice that interferes with the doctor-patient relationship. They form the core of the Texas abortion law case heard at the Supreme Court in Spring 2016, yet the organizations profiled here show no signs of slowing their advance against women’s reproductive healthcare.

OPPOSITION REPORT | 25 MODEL LEGISLATION FROM AUL WHAT IT DOES

Women’s Health Defense Act • Bans abortions after 20 weeks gestation with exceptions only for physical harm of the woman • Personhood language

Women’s Right to Know Act • Mandatory Ultrasound (transvaginal in first trimester) • At least two separate visits (meaning more time off work, more time away from home, more travel time)

Abortion Patients’ Enhanced • Targeted regulation of abortion providers (TRAP) Safety Act

Abortion-Inducing Drugs • Targets low-income women and rural women without an abortion provider in their counties Safety Act

Parental Involvement • Increases costs of parental consent by requiring notarized documents, government Enhancement Act identification, and proof of relationship • Requires mental health evaluation for minors seeking judicial bypass to parental involvement requirements

Enforcement Module • Outlines criminal and civil liabilities for abortion providers

Missouri Preamble • Personhood language (Guidance for Interpretation of State Laws)

State Constitutional • Inserts fetal personhood language into the constitution Amendment • Eliminates any public funds for abortion, except to save the life of the woman, including for (Status of Abortion Under rape or incest State Constitution)

Joint Resolution Proposing • Opposes Roe v. Wade explicitly That American People • Establishes state opposition to a woman’s right to abortion Determine Abortion Law & Policy (Pro-Life State Resolution)

Joint Resolution to Promote • Seeks to defund any funding for abortion providers, even if they provide additional Women’s Safety by healthcare services Investigation & Defunding of Planned Parenthood and Other Abortion Providers

Partial-Birth • Repeats federal legislation Abortion Ban Act • Does not provide exceptions for a woman’s health • Asserts with unsupported information that this poses risks to women’s health Prenatal Nondiscrimination • Targets cultural groups with history Act (Ban on Abortions for • Requires inquiry and judgement of woman’s personal decision Sex Selection & Genetic Abnormalities)

Women’s Ultrasound • Mandatory ultrasound before an abortion, which must be transvaginal before 12 weeks, Right to Know Act which composed 89% of abortions in 2010 • Fetal personhood language • Establishes 24 hour waiting period

26 | NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Against Our Will (1.2017) MODEL LEGISLATION FROM AUL WHAT IT DOES

Coercive Abuse Against • Fetal personhood language Mothers Prevention Act

Parental Consent for • Requires notarized consent from parent or legal guardian for minors seeking abortion Abortion Act Parental Notification • 48 hour waiting period for notification of parent or legal guardian of minor seeking abortion for Abortion Act

Women’s Health Protection Act • TRAP law (Abortion Clinic Regulations) • Medically unnecessary and burdensome regulations • Fetal personhood language Abortion Providers’ • Mandates admitting privileges at local hospital, including in rural areas with limited hospital Admitting Privileges Act access, even for medical abortions

Abortion Reporting Act • Increases reporting requirements for abortion providers, in some cases including payment method, pregnancy history, and probable time of gestation

Federal Abortion • Prohibits health insurance plans that cover abortion from participating in the State Health Mandate Opt-Out Act Exchanges

Employee Coverage • Prohibits State from including insurance that provides coverage for abortion for State Prohibition Act employees

Defunding the Abortion • Eliminates funding for all facilities that provide abortions or abortion Industry and Advancing referrals, even if that facility provides other family planning services Women’s Health Act (Options • Inserts personhood language into law to Defund Abortion Providers)

Joint Resolution Honoring • Honors false clinics that try to shame women into keeping a pregnancy that they don’t want Pregnancy Resource Centers

Crimes Against the • Fetal personhood language Unborn Child Act Pregnant Woman’s • Fetal personhood language Protection Act

Born-Alive Infant • Repeats national legislation Protection Act • Increases threats to and risks for doctors who provide abortions after second trimester

Unborn Wrongful Death Act • Fetal personhood language

Dignified Final Disposition Act • Mandates cremation or burial of fetal remains, separate from medical waste • Requires fetal death certificate for death after delivery, miscarriage, or abortion • Requires stillborn certificate Pharmacist Freedom • Allows pharmacists and pharmacies to refuse to dispense valid prescriptions, including of Conscience Act birth control and emergency contraception, even in places without alternative providers

OPPOSITION REPORT | 27 i Alex McBride, “Landmark Cases: Roe v Wade (1973),” PBS, December 2006, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_roe.html ii “Roe v. Wade at 40: Most Oppose Overturning Abortion Decision,” Pew Research Center, January 16, 2013, http://www.pewforum.org/2013/01/16/ roe-v-wade-at-40/ iii Michael Lipka, “5 facts about abortion,” Pew Research Center, June 11, 2015, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/06/11/5-facts-about-abortion/ iv Corinne H. Rocca, Katrina Kimport, Sarah C.M. Roberts, Heather Gould, John Neuhaus, and Diana G. Foster, “Decision Rightness and Emotional Responses to Abortion in the United States: A Longitudinal Study,” PLOS ONE, July 8, 2015, http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal. pone.0128832 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128832 v “Colorado Election Results,” State of Colorado, November 4, 2014, http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CO/53335/149718/Web01/en/summary.html vi Steve Ertelt, “Colorado Personhood Amendment 67 Fails a Third Time by Lopsided Margin,” LifeNews.com, November 4, 2014, http://www.lifenews. com/2014/11/04/colorado-personhood-amendment-67-fails-a-third-time-by-lopsided-margin/ vii “About,” Americans United for Life, http://www.aul.org/about-aul/ viii “Mission,” Americans United for Life, http://www.aul.org/about-aul/mission/ ix “Defending Life 2015: A State-by-State Legal Guide to Abortion, Bioethics, and the End of Life,” Americans United for Life, (Washington, D.C.: Americans United for Life, 2015): 21, http://aul.org/downloads/defending-life-2015/AUL_Defending_Life_2015.pdf x “Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D.,” Americans United for Life, http://www.aul.org/about-aul/charmaine-yoest/ xi “Defending Life 2015: A State-by-State Legal Guide to Abortion, Bioethics, and the End of Life,” Americans United for Life, (Washington, D.C.: Americans United for Life, 2015): 68, http://aul.org/downloads/defending-life-2015/AUL_Defending_Life_2015.pdf xii “About,” Americans United for Life, http://www.aul.org/about-aul/ xiii “Legislation,” Americans United for Life, http://www.aul.org/legislative-resources/ xiv “Defending Life 2015: A State-by-State Legal Guide to Abortion, Bioethics, and the End of Life,” Americans United for Life, (Washington, D.C.: Americans United for Life, 2015): 285, http://aul.org/downloads/defending-life-2015/AUL_Defending_Life_2015.pdf xv “Defending Life 2015: A State-by-State Legal Guide to Abortion, Bioethics, and the End of Life,” Americans United for Life, (Washington, D.C.: Americans United for Life, 2015): 333, http://aul.org/downloads/defending-life-2015/AUL_Defending_Life_2015.pdf xvi Karen Pazol, Andreea A. Creanga, Kim D. Burley, Brenda Hayes, and Denise J. Jamieson, “Abortion Surveillance—United States, 2010,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, November 29, 2013, accessed June 23, 2015, http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss6208a1.htm xvii “Transvaginal ultrasound,” U.S. National Library of Medicine, MedlinePlus, www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003779.htm xviii “World Congress of Families News,” World Congress of Families, no. 8 (December 2014/January 2015): 12, http://worldcongress.org/ files/9114/2239/2810/WCF_News_December_2014.pdf xix “Our Purpose,” World Congress of Families, http://worldcongress.org/about/purpose xx “World Congress of Families Newsletter,” World Congress of Families 3, no. 4 (April 2009): 5, http://worldcongress.org/wcfnl/pdf/2009/wcfnl.0904.pdf xxi Uganda, Bill No. 18, “The Anti Homosexuality Bill, 2009,” September 25, 2009, http://www.publiceye.org/publications/globalizing-the-culture-wars/ pdf/uganda-bill-september-09.pdf xxii William L. Saunders, “Toward a Culture of Life—Abortion, Biotechnology & Cloning,” World Congress of Families, March 29, 2004, http:// worldcongress.org/wcf3_spkrs/wcf3_saunders.htm xxiii William L. Saunders, Jr., “Human Rights & Parental Rights,” World Congress of Families, August 10, 2009, http://worldcongress.org/wcf5.spkrs/wcf5. saunders.htm xxiv Brief for Alliance Defense Fund, Centre for Legal Studies at C-Fam, & Americans United for Life as Amici Curiae, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Case No. 12,361 Grete Artavia Murillo et al. (“In Vitro Fertilization”) v. Costa Rica (2012), http://adfinternational.org/wp-content/plugins/ download-attachments/includes/download.php?id=339 xxv “Statement of Faith,” Alliance Defending Freedom, http://www.adflegal.org/about-us/careers/statement-of-faith xxvi “Our Leadership Team,” Alliance Defending Freedom, http://www.adflegal.org/about-us/leadership xxvii “Allies,” Alliance Defending Freedom, http://www.adflegal.org/about-us/allies xxviii “Allies,” Alliance Defending Freedom, http://www.adflegal.org/about-us/allies xxix “Lawsuit Seeks to End Anti-Speech ‘Bubble’ Zones,” Alliance Defending Freedom, February 28, 2014, http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/8887 xxx “Client Story: Ruth Malhotra and Orit Sklar,” Alliance Defending Freedom, http://www.adflegal.org/detailspages/client-stories-details/ ruth-malhotra-and-orit-sklar xxxi SB15-268 “Offenses Against Unborn Children” (AUL); SB15-285 “Women’s Reproductive Information Guarantee for Health and Transparency” (AUL); HB15-1112 “Born-Alive Infant Protection Act” (AUL); HB15-1128 “Women’s Health Protection Act” (AUL); HB15-1171 “State Freedom of Conscience Protection Act”; HB15-1194 “Authorize General Fund Dollars for LARC Services” (testified against) xxxii “About Colorado Family Action,” ColoradoAction.org, http://coloradoaction.org/about/ xxxiii “Staff & Fellows,” Centennial Institute: Colorado Christian University, http://www.ccu.edu/centennial/staff-and-fellows/ xxxiv Catherine E. Shcoichet and Halimah Abdullah, “Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoes controversial anti-gay bill, SB 1062,” CNN.com, February 26, 2014, http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/26/politics/arizona-brewer-bill/

28 | NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Against Our Will (1.2017) xxxv Anderson Cooper, “Who is behind the Ariz. anti-gay bill?” Keeping Them Honest, CNN.com, February 25, 2014, at 1:30, http://www.cnn.com/ videos/bestoftv/2014/02/26/ac-kth-anti-gay-bill.cnn xxxvi Rachel Percelay, “How An Extreme Anti-LGBT Legal Powerhouse Is Working To Enact ‘Religious Freedom’ Laws,” Media Matters for Americans, April 16, 2015, http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/04/16/how-an-extreme-anti-lgbt-legal-powerhouse-is-wo/203297 xxxvii Alliance Defending Freedom, “Form 990,” Guidestar.org, 2010, http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2011/541/660/2011-541660459-07ffcd0a-9. pdf xxxviii Alliance Defending Freedom, “Form 990,” Guidestar.org, 2011, http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2012/541/660/2012-541660459- 093ad96b-9.pdf xxxix Evelyn Schlatter, “Hate Group Leader Gordon Klingenschmitt Elected to Colorado House,” Southern Poverty Law Center, November 6, 2014, http:// www.splcenter.org/blog/2014/11/06/hate-group-leader-gordon-klingenschmitt-elected-to-colorado-house/ xl “The Obama Administration’s Attacks on Religious Freedom, Sanctity of Life, Marriage and the Family,” Alliance Defending Freedom, February 24, 2015, http://www.adfmedia.org/files/ObamaReligiousFreedomAttacks.pdf xli Brief for Texas Physicians Resource Council, Christian Medical and Dental Associations and Catholic Medical Association as Amici Curiae, Lawrence v. Texas (2003), http://oldsite.alliancedefensefund.org/userdocs/Lawrence_ChristianMedAssoc_USSCT_20030218.pdf xlii “U.S. Supreme Court Rewrites Constitution and 3,000 Years of History,” Alliance Defending Freedom, June 26, 2003, accessed July 23, 2015, via Free Republic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/935964/posts xliii “Biography: Alan Sears,” Alliance Defending Freedom, http://www.adflegal.org/detailspages/biography-details/alan-sears xliv “Outlawing Homosexuality in Belize,” Southern Poverty Law Center, July 2013, http://www.splcenter.org/get%20informed/publications/ Dangerous%20Liaisons/Dangerous%20Liaisons%3A%20Outlawing%20Homosexuality%20in%20Belize xlv “Stirm Strikes Back At SPLC,” 7Newsbelize.com, July 29, 2013, http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=26163 xlvi Charlie Butts, “Attorney: India got it right on homosexual ‘rights,’” OneNewsNow.com, December 12, 2013, http://onenewsnow.com/ legal-courts/2013/12/12/attorney-india-got-it-right-on-homosexual-rights#.Uqn2LPRDttChttp://onenewsnow.com/legal-courts/2013/12/12/ attorney-india-got-it-right-on-homosexual-rights xlvii “Biography: Sofia Martinez,” Alliance Defending Freedom, http://www.adflegal.org/detailspages/biography-details/sofia-martinez xlviii “Murillo et al. v. Costa Rica: Protecting Life ‘From Conception’ in the Inter-American System,” Alliance Defense Fund, May 8, 2012, http://www. adfmedia.org/files/2012-05-08_Costa_Rica_Update.pdf xlix Brief for Alliance Defense Fund, Centre for Legal Studies at C-Fam, & Americans United for Life as Amici Curiae, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Case No. 12,361 Grete Artavia Murillo et al. (“In Vitro Fertilization”) v. Costa Rica (2012), http://adfinternational.org/wp-content/plugins/ download-attachments/includes/download.php?id=339 l Benjamin W. Bull, “Attack on Traditional Marriage,” World Congress of Families IV, May 2007, http://worldcongress.org/wcf4.spkrs/wcf4.bull.htm li “World Congress of Families News,” World Congress of Families 8, no. 8 (December 2014/January 2015): 12, http://worldcongress.org/ files/9114/2239/2810/WCF_News_December_2014.pdf lii “Our Purpose,” World Congress of Families, http://worldcongress.org/about/purpose liii “International Planning Committee Meets In Moscow To Plan World Congress of Families VIII (September 10-12, 2014),” World Congress of Families, October 23, 2013, http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=71b5ff0a93830214b96a42bf6&id=506aaa3795&e=594c6f534a liv Miranda Blue, “Focus On The Family, Alliance Defending Freedom, NOM Leaders Reportedly Met With Author Of Russian ‘Homosexual Propaganda’ Bill,” Right Wing Watch, October 24, 2013, http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ focus-family-alliance-defending-freedom-nom-leaders-reportedly-met-author-russian-homosexual lv Benjamin W. Bull, “Attack on Traditional Marriage,” World Congress of Families, May 2007, http://worldcongress.org/wcf4.spkrs/wcf4.bull.htm lvi Benjamin W. Bull, “The Importance of Religious Liberty and Freedom of Speech to the Family: International Legal Issues,” World Congress of Families, August 12, 2009, http://worldcongress.org/wcf5.spkrs/wcf5.bull.htm lvii Benjamin W. Bull, “Hate Speech Laws,” World Congress of Families, May 2012, http://congresomundial.es/wp-content/uploads/Benjamin-Bull-hate- speech.pdf lviii Paul Coleman, “Hate Speech Laws and Anti-Discrimination to Marginalize Believers,” World Congress of Families, May 26, 2012, http:// congresomundial.es/wp-content/uploads/Paul-Coleman-Ponencia-ENGLISH.pdf lix Roger Kiska, “Violation of Rights of Conscience: Plenary Session: The Homosexual Lobby,” World Congress of Families, May 26, 2012, http:// congresomundial.es/wp-content/uploads/Roger-Kiska-Violation-of-Rights-of-Conscience-ENGLISH.pdf lx Alan Sears, “The Homosexual Legal Agenda Religious, Freedom and Family: Plenary Session: The Homosexual Agenda,” World Congress of Families, May 26, 2012, http://congresomundial.es/wp-content/uploads/Alan-Sears-The-Homosexual-Legal-Agenda-ENGLISH.pdf lxi Piero A. Tozzi, “The Threat from Transnationalist Progressivism: Sexual Orientation and International Law,” World Congress of Families, May 26, 2012, http://congresomundial.es/wp-content/uploads/Piero-Tozzi-THE-THREAT-FROM-TRANSNATIONALIST-PROGRESSIVISM-ENGLISH.pdf lxii U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Government Reform—Minority Staff, Special Investigations Division, False and Misleading Health Information Provided by Federally Funded Pregnancy Resource Centers, prepared for Rep. Henry A. Waxman, July 2006, http://www.chsourcebook.com/ articles/waxman2.pdf

OPPOSITION REPORT | 29 lxiii Lisa McIntire, Crisis Pregnancy Centers Lie: The Insidious Threat to Reproductive Freedom, NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation, 2015, http://www. prochoiceamerica.org/assets/download-files/cpc-report-2015.pdf lxiv U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Government Reform—Minority Staff, Special Investigations Division, False and Misleading Health Information Provided by Federally Funded Pregnancy Resource Centers, prepared for Rep. Henry A. Waxman, July 2006, http://www.chsourcebook.com/ articles/waxman2.pdf lxv Scott Klusendorf, “The Vanishing Pro-Life Apologist: Putting the ‘Life’ Back into the Abortion Debate,” www.equip.org, originally publishing in Christian Research Journal 22, no. 1 (1999), accessed June 23, 2015, from http://www.equip.org/article/ the-vanishing-pro-life-apologist-putting-the-life-back-into-the-abortion-debate/ lxvi Lisa McIntire, Crisis Pregnancy Centers Lie: The Insidious Threat to Reproductive Freedom, NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation, 2015, http://www. prochoiceamerica.org/assets/download-files/cpc-report-2015.pdf lxvii Lisa McIntire, Crisis Pregnancy Centers Lie: The Insidious Threat to Reproductive Freedom, NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation, 2015, http://www. prochoiceamerica.org/assets/download-files/cpc-report-2015.pdf lxviii Meaghan Winter, “What Some Pregnancy Centers Are Really Saying to Women With Unplanned Pregnancies,” Cosmopolitan, August 2015, http:// www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a43101/pregnancy-centers-august-2015/ lxix State of Colorado, 70th General Assembly, Senate Resolution 15-003: Concerning pregnancy resource centers, http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2015a/ csl.nsf/fsbillcont2/08FCBD333C31BBA987257DF90065E7FB/$FILE/SR003_01.pdf lxx “Defending Life 2015: A State-by-State Legal Guide to Abortion, Bioethics, and the End of Life,” Americans United for Life, (Washington, D.C.: Americans United for Life, 2015): 388, http://aul.org/downloads/defending-life-2015/AUL_Defending_Life_2015.pdf lxxi Americans United for Life, “Care Net and Americans United for Life Applaud Passage of Colorado Resolution Honoring Pregnancy Centers,” Americans United for Life, April 21, 2015, http://www.aul.org/2015/04/ care-net-and-americans-united-for-life-applaud-passage-of-colorado-resolution-honoring-pregnancy-centers/ lxxii “Mission & Vision,” Care Net, http://www.care-net.org/care-net-mission-and-vision lxxiii “Mission and Vision,” National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, http://www.nifla.org/about-us-mission-and-vision.asp lxxiv “Our Passion,” Heartbeat International, https://www.heartbeatinternational.org/about/our-passion lxxv San Luis Valley Women’s Resource Center, Form 990-EZ, Guidestar.org, 2013, http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2013/841/169/2013- 841169265-0a999116-Z.pdf lxxvi Owen Hill, “Issues,” OwenHillforSenate.com, http://www.owenhillforsenate.com/issues/ lxxvii “About Save the Storks,” SavetheStorks.com, https://www.savethestorks.com/about-us lxxviii Life Choices Pregnancy Center, Form 990, Guidestar.org, 2013, http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2013/742/345/2013-742345974- 0a73ef9e-9.pdf lxxixCraddock, Josh, Why Personhood? (Colorado: Denver, 2014) http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/themes/54bd55622213936cf2000001/ attachments/original/1430762309/Why-Personhood-eBook.pdf?1430762309 lxxx “Ectopic Pregnancy,” American Pregnancy Association. 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