2020 Colorado Election
Last Day to Register to Vote: On October 26 for online and by mail; on Election Day for in-person
Early In-Person Voting: Begins October 26; ends November 2
Automatic Absentee Ballot: Absentee ballots are automatically sent to registered voters.
Excuse to Vote By Mail? None needed
Voter ID Required? Yes
JOHN HICKENLOOPER (D), Challenger
As mayor of Denver (2003–2011) and governor of Colorado (2011–2019), Hickenlooper demonstrated a record of supporting access to sexual and reproductive health.
I have signed the personhood petition. I have taken the petitions to my church and circulating them to my church. And I have a legislative record that backs up my support for life.
John Hickenlooper, May 30, 2019
Source: Twitter
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore, Flickr
-
A strong supporter of birth control access and sex education, Hickenlooper signed a law that allows patients to fill birth control prescriptions for a full-year supply as well as a law that promoted teaching sex education in schools, rather than abstinence-only programs.
-
Hickenlooper oversaw the Colorado Family Planning initiative, which gave affordable, long-acting reversible contraceptives (such as IUDs) to teens. As a presidential candidate, Hickenlooper advocated expanding the initiative nationwide. His proposal would get rid of the Title X gag rule, reestablish Title X patients’ access to care at Planned Parenthood health centers, and expand Title X by $700 million.
-
Hickenlooper believes abortion access is an “unalienable right.” He pledges to protect access to safe, legal abortion and work toward repeal of the Hyde Amendment.
CORY GARDNER (R), Incumbent
Gardner has voted to block patients who use public health-care programs from accessing care at Planned Parenthood — and to ban safe, legal access to abortion.
I have signed the personhood petition. I have taken the petitions to my church and circulating them to my church. And I have a legislative record that backs up my support for life.
Cory Gardner, Feb. 14, 2010
Gardner has repeatedly joined efforts by the Trump-Pence administration to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — jeopardizing health coverage for nearly 600,000 Coloradans. During the ultimately failed 2017 effort to repeal the ACA, Gardner reportedly told Republican colleagues that “donors are furious” because he and fellow senators “haven’t kept our promise” to undermine access to health care for millions.
Every 2017 proposal to repeal the ACA would have blocked patients who rely on public health care programs from accessing care at Planned Parenthood health centers. Gardner voted four times that year alone to block access to the birth control, STI testing and treatment, and cancer screenings that Planned Parenthood provides. The following year, Gardner voted to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh — who before his Supreme Court nomination had a long record of ruling to limit access to safe, legal abortion.
