Rick Miss Peterson,
you helped pass Colorado's
abortion access law that does not
put any restriction on abortion.
Would you try to pass a similar
federal law allowing abortion
at anytime for any reason?
Thank you, Marshall.
I'm proud of what we did here
in Colorado to protect access
to reproductive health care
and ensure that this choice is
between women and their doctors.
The reason why there aren't
restrictions is because as you know,
those later, those later abortions
come with medical emergencies.
Doctors and women need to be
protected in that circumstance.
We need to make sure that we're not
protecting just the rights here in Colorado,
but protecting that at the federal level.
I've done so here in Colorado,
and I will absolutely.
Do so at the federal level.
Should federal taxpayer dollars
be used to fund abortions?
I think that all that this is
something that you try to that
is tries to bring division
around funding for abortion.
I think that this is healthcare,
that this should be funded
no matter who the payer.
That's a yes, then yes.
OK. Mr Odlin, you said you
support Texas abortion ban,
which would give the right of
any state to do as they please.
Still, if a state decides to jail
women for having abortions and
jail any friends or family who
helped them obtain an abortion,
you're comfortable with that.
Well, that's not what I said.
I said I support a states rights decision.
So Texas is right to this to
choose Colorado's right to choose.
I've also said I will not support
any federal legislation whatsoever
to ban or to promote abortion and
all uphold the Hyde Amendment.
But this is a a States level decision
and I I'm focused on Colorado and I'm
not going to do anything as your next
representative to address this issue.
I think the federal government
needs to stay out of it altogether
and I think what we have here is
a very extreme and permissive.
Really on par with North Korea and China.
I don't think most pro-choice voters here
in Colorado understand how permissive
and extreme this bill really is.
Abortion up to the day of birth.
I can't support that personally.
But I'm not going to do anything
as a congressman.
I'm going to,
I'm going to stay out of it and
let Colorado decide through
the legislative process.
So states like Texas that are more
restrictive about people accessing that
care or friends of them, you're OK
with it because if the state chose that
well, I'm not. I'm not looking at Texas.
Not, I'm not going to intervene in Texas.
I'm allowing Texas to make its own
laws because that's where it should be.
I might have, you know,
issues with the extremeness of Texas,
bill, but I'm focused here on Colorado,
and this is the bill I'm looking at.
So what about states criminalizing
out-of-state travel?
So someone coming from Texas to
Colorado and then going after
them because they came here?
I don't. I think that's extreme.
I think that's problematic.
Why? Well, I think it's a,
it's a gross overreach of power
between Interstate compacts.
Ultimately, the federal government
needs to stay out of that.
And I want to remind the listening audience,
I'm running for Congress.
So I'm focused on the federal issues.
I'm a limited government person.
I want to reduce federal
government intervention.
And I do think that that what
you've stated about Texas is,
is a bit extreme.
That's not something I would support.
I appreciate that. Thanks.
Mr Rodman, do you want to be
heard on this issue? Go ahead.
I just want to clarify
that my opponent will not.
To protect those rights at the federal
level and also doesn't support
the blah that we passed protecting
those rights here in Colorado.
And so he supports states like
Texas being able to throw women and
doctors in prison for up to life for
making this healthcare decision.
People in it's really easy to talk about
an extreme law with no exceptions.
There are people who are going through
medical emergencies where they're
bleeding to death trying to go across
state lines for the care that they need.
Because of the radical
Supreme Court decision.
So at the end of the day,
you said that you're not gonna
be weighing in one way or the
other on this in Congress.
If Republicans take the house,
that's not gonna be your choice.
It's gonna be the choice
of your party leadership.
And if they were to put up an
abortion ban similar to the one
being promulgated in the Senate
by Lindsey Graham, South Carolina,
how would you vote on that?
If you have to vote? I
would vote against it.
You would vote made that
commitment to my constituents.
I'm not going to weigh
in at the federal level.
And I think Mrs Peterson is is misstating me.
I I I have been.
Very clear that I support
Colorado's ability to decide
through the legislative process,
and I'm not going to interfere with that.
And I don't weigh in on Texas because
I'm representing Colorado and District
7 and I'm running for Colorado.
OK. Thank you.