Abortion Drugs & Practices

Wendy Faustin, a Colorado pro-life sidewalk counselor, is challenging the state's 'bubble law' that prohibits approaching within eight feet of someone near abortion clinics, arguing it infringes on her First Amendment rights. Her case, currently on appeal in the U.S.

A recent non-peer-reviewed study funded by abortion pill investors found that nearly a quarter of abortion pill clients did not understand how to properly take the medication, and nearly 10% did not know when to seek emergency care, yet the study recommends removing the FDA-required Patient Agreement Form that informs clients of these risks. The study included participants from Colorado Planned Parenthood facilities, highlighting concerns about informed consent and safety in the state's abortion pill provision.

A study involving nearly 600 women from clinics in California, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, and Minnesota challenges the necessity of the FDA's Patient Agreement Form for mifepristone, arguing women already know the risks of chemical abortion pills. However, the study reveals significant gaps in patient knowledge about correct usage and failure rates, underscoring the importance of these forms to ensure women are fully informed and protected.

An estimated 6,000 pharmacies nationwide, including locations in Colorado such as Denver Health Discharge Pharmacy and Southwest Health Systems Pharmacy in Cortez, are certified to dispense the abortion pill mifepristone. Colorado has 166 certified abortion pill prescribers according to a Senate HELP Committee report, highlighting the state's participation in the widespread distribution of chemical abortion drugs.

Planned Parenthood will reopen in Glenwood Springs on Monday. This development affects access to reproductive health services in Colorado.

Operation Rescue and Life Legal Defense Foundation conducted a three-day #JusticeForLexi Campaign in Colorado to expose the death of 18-year-old Lexi Arguello attributed to Planned Parenthood. The campaign involved peaceful and prayerful events and received coverage from both national and local news outlets, including a reporter from Colorado.

A Colorado abortion clinic killed eighteen-year-old Lexi Arguello during a botched abortion. That clinic has called an ambulance thirteen times since, and Colorado still refuses to inspect it. The same state that...

Lexi Arguello, an 18-year-old woman who was 22 weeks pregnant, died after undergoing a second trimester abortion at an unlicensed Planned Parenthood clinic in Fort Collins, Colorado, which lacks safety inspections and staff vetting. In response, Operation Rescue and a coalition of pro-life groups held a #JusticeForLexi campaign including press conferences, prayer rallies, and campus outreach to call for transparency, accountability, and legislation to regulate abortion clinics in Colorado following reports of 24 women injured since January 2025.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fort Collins, CO — On Friday, August 28, at 9:30 AM, a coalition of national and local leaders will hold a thirty-minute press conference on the sidewalk in front of the Fort Collins Planned Parenthood located at 825 South Shields Street. Speakers will include: The press conference is part of #JusticeForLexi, a […] The post PRESS RELEASE: Coalition of National and Local Leaders to Hold a Press Conference Regarding the Abortion-Related Death of Lexi Arguello, Part of a Three-Day Campaign appeared first on Operation Rescue .

By Sarah Neely Fort Collins, CO — On July 9, yet another woman required emergency transport from the same Colorado Planned Parenthood responsible for the death of 18-year-old Lexi Arguello. Just before 11:00 AM that day, a Planned Parenthood staffer called 911 for a 29-year-old female who was reportedly “hemorrhaging.” Public 911 records obtained by […] The post In the Wake of Planned Parenthood’s Failures and a Patient Death, EMS Seems Forced to Fill Gaps While State Officials Do Absolutely Nothing appeared first on Operation Rescue .

By Sarah Neely Since January 2025, Operation Rescue has investigated 24 abortion emergencies at completely unregulated clinics in radicalized Colorado, including the tragic death of 18-year-old Lexi Arguello, who succumbed to catastrophic complications experienced during a second trimester abortion at Planned Parenthood in Fort Collins. In total so far, thirteen of these 24 emergencies took […] The post 24 Women Killed or Injured By Unregulated Colorado Abortion Clinics — Operation Rescue is Taking to the Streets in Fort Collins and Denver Area appeared first on Operation Rescue .

July 23, 2026 We Remember Alexis Arguello Feminists for Life remembers and mourns Alexis Arguello, who died after a botched abortion procedure at a Planned Parenthood in Fort Collins, Colorado. In 2025, an eighteen-year-old, also known as Lexi, underwent an abortion while 22 weeks pregnant, which ended in the death of her and her child. Lexi […] The post We Remember Alexis Arguello appeared first on Feminists for Life .

A Colorado teen died after undergoing an abortion through Planned Parenthood, though the media and local officials have tried to bury the story. “Eighteen-year-old Lexi Arguello died after undergoing an abortion at a Planned Parenthood in Fort Collins, Colorado, in 2025,” Live Action reported... The post Colorado Teen Dies From Planned Parenthood Abortion. Media Is Mum appeared first on The Human Life Review .

Colorado enacted a law in April 2023 banning abortion pill reversal (APR), which uses progesterone to counteract abortion drugs, and subsequently faced a federal lawsuit from Bella Health and Wellness and nurse Chelsea Mynyk challenging the law's constitutionality. A federal court permanently blocked Colorado from enforcing the APR ban against Bella Health and Chelsea in August 2025, and in January 2026, Colorado agreed to pay $700,000 in attorneys' fees to settle Chelsea Mynyk's portion of the lawsuit.

About 50 members of the Colorado chapter of White Rose Resistance protested outside the RISE Collective abortion clinic in Boulder, which offers abortions up to 34 weeks of pregnancy. The group plans similar rallies statewide this summer while activists work to collect signatures for initiative 283 to repeal Colorado's constitutional abortion rights enshrined by Amendment 79.

Littleton, Colorado Planned Parenthood announced the closure of its Littleton center in May 2025. While Planned Parenthood’s official closure notice noted that a new center would open at a different location in Littleton sometime in July 2025, no such opening has occurred. The closed Littleton location performed drug-induced abortions up to 11 weeks of pregnancy, […]

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a law requiring colleges and universities with student health centers to provide access to abortion medication starting in August 2027. Institutions like the University of Denver and Metropolitan State University have indicated plans to comply, though exemptions exist for religious beliefs and federal grant concerns.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed House Bill 26-1335 requiring colleges and universities with student health centers to maintain a supply of abortion pills starting August 2027, with exceptions for sincerely held religious beliefs and federal grant participation risks. The law also protects student privacy by banning universities from sharing identifiable abortion-related patient information with other states unless required by federal law or court order, addressing concerns amid national abortion access battles.

Alexis Arguello, an 18-year-old Colorado teenager, died on February 6, 2025, from disseminated intravascular coagulation following a second-trimester surgical abortion at the Fort Collins Planned Parenthood clinic. The Larimer County Coroner's report revealed blood clotting complications and alleged delays in medical response by Planned Parenthood staff during her treatment.

A Colorado judge ordered the release of Lexi Arguello’s full autopsy after Life Legal and Operation Rescue challenged efforts to conceal the circumstances surrounding her abortion-related death. The post The autopsy Planned Parenthood didn’t want released appeared first on .

Colorado's Legislature passed House Bill 26-1335 requiring colleges with student health centers to provide abortion medication on-site or via prescription, with exemptions for institutions holding sincere religious beliefs against abortion. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Katie Wallace and others, aligns with Colorado's constitutional protection of abortion rights established by Amendment 79 in 2024 and awaits Gov. Jared Polis's signature.

We are ecstatic that Bella Health + Wellness and Chelsea Mynyk, CNM, lawsuits resolved with permanent injunctions to prescribe Abortion Pill Reversal (bioidentical progesterone). Colorado law has not been repealed. However, this is a major win in the only state to outlaw APR. We will strive to make APR fully legal again in Colorado. We […] The post AAPLOG Colorado – First Half 2025 first appeared on AAPLOG - American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians & Gynecologists .

Colorado lawmakers ended the 2026 legislative session with final votes on key bills including a measure requiring college health centers to provide abortion medication and a bill shifting transportation funding to counter a proposed constitutional amendment on road funding. Several notable bills died on the last day, including one regulating gun barrel sales and another enshrining federal workplace safety standards into state law.

Colorado House Bill 1335 would require colleges with student health centers to provide on-site abortion medication, expanding access to mifepristone and misoprostol for students. The bill exempts institutions with sincerely held religious beliefs and aims to increase reproductive care access for students from any state or country attending Colorado colleges.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued a one-week administrative stay blocking the Fifth Circuit's ruling that reinstated in-person requirements for medication abortion, including the mailing ban on mifepristone. Colorado pro-abortion leaders emphasize that abortion access is protected under state law and constitution, contrasting with states like Louisiana affected by the ruling.