On Anniversary of Dobbs Decision, Hickenlooper Fights to Protect Reproductive Freedom

Hickenlooper: "Women deserve the freedom to make their own health care decisions. Full stop."

WASHINGTON - Today, on the fourth anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe, U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper released a video to his social media accounts reaffirming Colorado's support for reproductive freedom and the right to health care.

"I'm standing at the Lincoln Memorial, where we honor a president who believed in the basic idea of freedom for all," said Hickenlooper in the video posted to his social media accounts. "Politicians have no business making deeply personal medical decisions for women and their families. In Colorado, we know you're not free unless you have freedom over your own body."

Hickenlooper is a cosponsor of the Women's Health Protection Act of 2025, which would guarantee access to abortion nationwide. Hickenlooper has also introduced the Freedom to Travel Health Care Act, which would block anti-choice states and localities from limiting travel for abortion services and empower individuals, to bring civil action against those who restrict a woman's right to cross state lines to receive legal reproductive care, and the Let Doctors Provide Reproductive Health Care Act, which would to protect abortion providers in states like Colorado from Republican attempts to restrict their practice.

Since the Dobbs decision, 23 states have implemented near-total abortion bans, leaving one in three American women without access to safe, legal abortion care. The Trump administration and congressional Republicans have continued targeting Americans' reproductive rights and undermining millions of women's access to abortion care.

Yesterday, Hickenlooper participated in a Senate spotlight forum with patients, health care providers, and reproductive rights leaders to highlight the devastation caused since Dobbs, and the continued attacks from MAGA Republicans to strip away access to abortion care, family planning services, clinic safety protections, and Medicaid coverage.

"After the disastrous Dobbs decision, states like Colorado that have protected access to abortion care saw large increases in out of state residents seeking access to abortion care. This put a strain on all the providers in our state. It's why access to medication abortion through telehealth is so critical, so important," said Hickenlooper during the forum.

Hickenlooper introduced the Stop Comstock Act, which would protect access to medication abortions like Mifepristone. Last month, Hickenlooper was a vocal critic of the federal appeals court decision to block mailing prescriptions to mifepristone, which was shortly overturned by the Supreme Court.

Watch and download Hickenlooper's full remarks at the spotlight forum HERE.

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