Meet 2L Danielle Edwards! She serves on the board of the Women’s Law Caucus, is the law student representative for the Labor and Employment Section of the Colorado Bar Association, and is a member of If/When/How, a national network of law students and lawyers dedicated to supporting, educating, and training the next generation of pro-choice advocates. Learn more about Danielle below.
You recently testified in support of the Reproductive Health Equity Act (RHEA) on behalf of the Colorado Women’s Bar Association. Could you tell us a bit about your testimony and what inspired you to take part?
Yes, I did! It was great to be involved in such a historic bill! I am on the board of the Colorado Women’s Bar Association as a law student representative, and I am on a few sub-committees within the CWBA, Public Policy being one of them. One of the chairs of the committee asked for individuals to testify in support of the bill, and I felt very strongly about speaking on the right to women and pregnant person’s right to choose.
I only had two minutes to testify, so I focused on articulating why the bill was necessary given the intense anti-abortion movement in multiple states right now, and with the likely fall of Roe in June. We are lucky that in Colorado, there is a long history of supporting a woman’s right to choose, and enacting this bill only solidified that. I also decided to share that I am a survivor of sexual assault, and the impact that losing choice has personally had on me....
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