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After Roe Fell: U.S. Abortion Laws by State

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Colorado

Abortion remains legal in Colorado. In 2022, Colorado enacted a statute recognizing abortion as a fundamental right, and in 2024, Colorado enshrined that right into the state’s constitution.

State Legal Details

Restrictions in Effect

  • Parental Involvement, Parental Notification Requirement
  • TRAP requirements: Providers, Reporting Requirement

State Protections

In 2024, Colorado recognized abortion as a constitutional right1 and repealed its ban on state and local government insurance coverage for abortion services.2 The Colorado Constitution now reads “The right to abortion is hereby recognized. Government shall not deny, impede, or discriminate against the exercise of that right, including prohibiting health insurance coverage for abortion.” 3

In 2022, Colorado enacted the Reproductive Health Equity Act, which codified a fundamental right to reproductive health care—including the right to abortion—under state statute.4 The law provides that “[a] pregnant individual has a fundamental right to continue a pregnancy and give birth or to have an abortion and to make decisions about how to exercise that right.”5

Abortion in Colorado is legal at all stages of pregnancy, with no gestational limit.6 The state does not restrict the type of health-care practitioner who can provide abortion care.7 The state protects clinic safety and patient access by prohibiting obstruction and harassment near health‑care facilities, including through buffer‑zone restrictions around clinic entrances.8 Colorado generally requires private insurance plans to cover the total cost of abortion care9 and, following the repeal of its constitutional funding restriction in 2024, authorizes the use of public funds for abortion.10

Colorado law also includes robust interstate shield protections for reproductive health care. Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed an Executive Order in July 2022 directing state agencies to protect access to reproductive health care in Colorado.11The order limited state cooperation with out-of-state investigations and legal actions related to lawful reproductive health care in Colorado, directed state licensing authorities to protect providers from out-of-state professional discipline, and confirmed the Governor’s discretion to deny requests for arrest, surrender, or extradition related to such care.12 In April 2023, Colorado codified these protections by enacting an interstate shield law barring state and local agencies from assisting out-of-state investigations or proceedings concerning legally protected reproductive health care.13 Colorado law further shields licensed health-care providers from prosecution, investigation, or penalties for providing medication abortion in accordance with state law, even when the medication is taken by the patient outside the state.14 In April 2025, Colorado expanded its shield protections by requiring anyone seeking a subpoena to affirm under penalty of perjury that the request will not be used to investigate or penalize legally protected abortion care;15 by allowing medication‑abortion prescription labels to identify the prescribing health‑care practice rather than the individual clinician;16 and by authorizing civil actions to enjoin and recover damages for out‑of‑state enforcement efforts targeting protected care.17

Restrictions

Colorado generally requires that parents or legal guardians be notified about a minor’s abortion;18 alternatively, a judge can approve a minor’s petition without parental notification.19

Colorado law requires abortion providers to submit reports to the state.20 Providers who violate Colorado’s abortion restrictions may face civil penalties.21

Historical Restrictions

Colorado repealed its pre-Roe ban in 2013.22

Conclusion

Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe, abortion remains legal in Colorado. In 2022, Colorado enacted a statute recognizing abortion as a fundamental right, and in 2024, Colorado enshrined that right into the state’s constitution.

  1. Colo. Const. art. II, § 32. ↩︎
  2. Colo. Const. art. V, § 50 (repealed by Amendment 79 (2024)). ↩︎
  3. Colo. Const. art. II, § 32.00a7 32 ↩︎
  4. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25‑6‑403(1)–(3)6. ↩︎
  5. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 25‑6‑403(2).0). ↩︎
  6. Colo. Const. art. II, § 32; Colo. Rev. Stat. §§ 25‑6‑401 to ‑407. On November 3, 2020, voters rejected a ballot initiative that would have prohibited abortion after 22 weeks LMP. See Colorado Proposition 115, 22‑Week Abortion Ban Initiative (2020), Ballotpedia,
    https://ballotpedia.org/Colorado_Proposition_115,_22-Week_Abortion_Ban_Initiative_(2020). ↩︎
  7. Colo. Const. art. II, § 32; Colo. Rev. Stat. §§ 25‑6‑401 to ‑407. ↩︎
  8. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-9-122. ↩︎
  9. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 10-16-104(26)(a). ↩︎
  10. Colo. Const. art. V, § 50 (repealed by Amendment 79 (2024)); Colo. Rev. Stat. §§ 25.5-4-412; 25.5-5-329. ↩︎
  11. Exec. Order No. D 2022‑013 (Colo. July 6, 2022). ↩︎
  12. Exec. Order No. D 2022‑013 (Colo. July 6, 2022). ↩︎
  13. Colo. Rev. Stat. §§ 24-116-101 to -102. ↩︎
  14. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-13-133. ↩︎
  15. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13‑1‑140.1. ↩︎
  16. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 12‑280‑124(2)(b). ↩︎
  17. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-21-133(b)(I). ↩︎
  18. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-22-704. ↩︎
  19. Colo. Rev. Stat § 13-22-707.. ↩︎
  20. 5 Colo. Code Regs. § 1006-1:10. ↩︎
  21. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-22-706. ↩︎
  22. 2013 Colo. Sess. Laws ch. 372, § 3. ↩︎

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