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Colorado women are mad as hell; looming Roe vs. Wade decision is making it worse

Written by The Denver Post | June 09, 2022

Rachel Hudson and her husband had their first serious discussion about leaving the country in the days following the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion foreshadowing the reversal of Roe vs. Wade.  They’d tossed the idea around previously with each passing headline: attacks on voting rightsbook banninggun violencehousing price inequities. But the 37-year-old Northglenn resident said the notion of having a Constitutional right stripped away — thereby allowing the government to legislate control over her body — was almost insurmountable.