Colorado pro-life leader slams amendment that would have taxpayers fund abortion via insurance

Colorado for Life executive director Marcie Little on Tuesday slammed a proposed amendment that would "force taxpayers to fund abortions for state insurance policies."

"We are battling Amendment 79," Little said on the "John Solomon Reports" podcast. "I've been encouraged at the number of people who are engaging, sometimes for the first time, publicly on this issue, including many pastors who are speaking out against abortion for the first time."

Next month, Coloradans will have the option to vote for or against Amendment 97 which would "recogniz[e] the right to abortion" and permit abortion to be "a covered service under health insurance plans for Colorado state and local government employees in the state constitution and for enrollees in state and local governmental insurance programs."

Abortion in Colorado is already legal at all stages of pregnancy with no restrictions.

"Abortion is already legal here through all nine months of pregnancy for any or no reason at all," Little said. "That's not enough for the other side."

She said that those on the left want the right to an abortion enshrined in the state constitution like other states do. 

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, abortion regulation was given back to the states.