Colorado's Democrat-controlled legislature has passed House Bill 26-1335, which forces every college and university in the state — public and private — to stock abortion medication in their campus pharmacies. Because apparently "higher education" now includes a minor in chemical abortions. Governor Jared Polis is expected to sign it.
Your tuition dollars at work, folks.
The bill, sponsored by Democrat Rep. Lorena Garcia with lead co-sponsors Sen. Katie Wallace and Rep. Kenny Nguyen, takes effect August 1, 2027. Garcia's reasoning? "Your life is on campus when you are in college, and that limits the ability to access certain services." Right. Because the real crisis facing college students in Colorado isn't crushing student debt or worthless degrees — it's insufficient access to abortion pills between their 10 a.m. sociology lecture and noon yoga.
There's a narrow religious exemption for institutions whose "sincerely held religious beliefs" conflict with the mandate. So your Catholic university might get a pass. But secular private schools? Tough luck. You're now in the abortion dispensary business whether you like it or not. And even schools that qualify for the religious exemption still have to provide prescriptions — they just don't have to physically stock the drugs on campus.
Nathan Fisher, associate director of the Colorado Catholic Conference, didn't mince words about what this bill actually does. "HB26-1335 will force college-aged women into an isolated environment with one perceived option: abortion," Fisher said. He also pointed out that 11 percent of women taking mifepristone experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or serious adverse events within 45 days.
Eleven percent. On a college campus. With a campus health center. What could possibly go wrong?
Lydia Davis, spokesperson for Students for Life of America, put the stakes in perspective: "Chemical Abortion Pills are the leading killer of American children." She noted that these pills account for approximately 1,761 babies killed daily and that almost one million unborn children are killed annually by abortion in the United States. Davis added that "these deadly drugs have killed millions of babies, harmed women, and polluted our water systems."
But Colorado Democrats aren't stopping at the pharmacy counter. As The College Fix reported, this is part of a broader push — the legislature also passed HB26-1141, which expands the definition of discrimination to include religious beliefs about sexuality and marriage. So not only must your campus stock abortion drugs, but don't you dare have traditional values about anything else, either.
This is the left's playbook distilled to its purest form. They can't convince young women that abortion is good, so they'll just make it unavoidable. Put the pills in the pharmacy. Put the pharmacy on campus. Make the campus the whole world. And call anyone who objects a religious extremist.
Rep. Garcia dressed this up as "access to healthcare." Spare us. When the government mandates that private institutions stock specific drugs designed to end human life, that's not healthcare policy. That's ideology with a prescription label.
Colorado parents, you've been warned. Starting August 2027, the campus tour will include a new stop.