Colorado Supreme Court Attempts to Kill Right to Life for Unborn Babies
Should children have the right to keep living from the moment they’re conceived?
The Colorado Secretary of State office so dislikes this question that they barred it from appearing on the 2026 ballot in Colorado for voters to decide. They stripped the rights of citizens to petition their government and denied voters the right to decide for themselves.
The only way the Colorado Constitution can be changed is by a vote of the people. The people’s initiative is designed to bypass the legislature and governor to get onto the ballot an issue that the people want to see in their Constitutional law.
Colorado bureaucrats changed the rules. The Title Board should only set the title of the Initiative. Instead, the Title Board (made up of staff members from the offices of the Secretary of State, Attorney General, and Legislative Council) is using its position to block initiatives members don’t like.
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At the last possible minute on January 8, 2026, the Colorado Supreme Court upheld the three-panel bureaucracy of the Title Board. They denied what thousands of families across Colorado would like to see on the ballot and potentially put into law in the state. It is a direct violation of the will of the people.
SHOULD CHILDREN HAVE THE RIGHT TO CONTINUE LIVING FROM THE MOMENT THEY ARE CONCEIVED?
The Title Board said that single sentence was too “confusing” for voters to understand. Based on the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution that guarantees life cannot be denied by any state without due process of law, the amendment was simple, straightforward, and to the point.
The Title Board argued that voters might not understand that a child’s right to continue living would conflict with a “right” to abortion, an admission that they fully understand abortion kills children and believe voters did not understand what they voted into law during the last election cycle where “abortion” was presented to voters as “healthcare”.
Co-Proponents of the basic amendment for the right to live presented the state Supreme Court forty-five (45) pages of case law and argument as to why the single-sentence amendment was single subject, including the ability to put personhood amendments on past ballots.
“If 125,000 voters indicate by their signatures that the people of Colorado want to put this initiative onto the ballot, it should be there,” stated the Proponents. “It should not matter what the topic is or how individuals in bureaucracy personally feel about it.”
The clock is ticking for the 2026 cycle. The state Supreme Court did not provide any explanation for denying the title. The wording of the amendment was backed by national and state leaders who expected it to win if put before Coloradans.
Christians across Colorado are praying against the evil of the state and for those who have no voice. As the Word of God declares in Psalm 119:126, It is time for thee, Lord, to work: for they have broken thy law. Every child is worth saving.
LifeNews Note: Faye Barnhart is the co-founder of the Colorado Life Initiative.
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