For years, Cory Gardner has proudly been on the fringe of the debate over women’s reproductive rights. Gardner has repeatedly endorsed ballot measures and introduced legislation to ban all abortions in Colorado, making no exceptions for victims of rape or incest. Gardner campaigned for Congress in 2010 on a platform of support for the notorious “Personhood” abortion ban measure, which failed by over 70% of the vote that year.

But in a “bombshell” report in the Denver Post not long after entering the Senate race, Gardner said “I can't support personhood going forward.” The reason is simple: Gardner knows that his longtime support for a total ban on abortion in Colorado could cost him the election.

In 2007, Gardner introduced a bill in the Colorado legislature to make abortion a class 3 felony. In 2008, Gardner proudly supported the first Personhood abortion ban, Amendment 48. He publicly announced his support for the 2010 Personhood abortion ban, Amendment 62, in a televised 9NEWS debate. In Congress in 2011, Gardner co-sponsored legislation to “redefine” the crime of rape to restrict access to abortion by rape victims.

Just last year, Congressman Gardner sponsored the Life at Conception Act: a near-clone of the Colorado Personhood abortion bans that would outlaw abortion beginning “at the moment of fertilization.”

Don’t let Cory Gardner run away from his record: tell Gardner to stop misleading Colorado voters about his steadfast support for banning abortion.