Abortion is health care. It shouldn’t be politicized. Abortion is a normal part of reproductive health services along with birth control and pre-natal, childbirth and maternity care, and 1 in 4 women will have an abortion by the age of 45. Someone you know and love has had an abortion. No matter who we are […]
Laura Packard
Special to The Colorado Sun
Twitter: @lpackard
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Opinion: The ACA changed how we treat cancer — and it is all at risk because of our current leadership
Health is a fragile thing. We’ve been told this over and over, but often it’s hard to imagine that we are anything but invincible. There are certain moments in our lives when that changes. The world is currently living through one of those moments. But for us, that moment came when we were given a […]
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Opinion: I’m lucky to be alive, thanks to the Affordable Care Act. We need more protections.
A couple of years ago my life changed irrevocably. I walked into a doctor’s office as a healthy, 40-year-old woman with a nagging cough, and walked out as a stage 4 cancer patient. I spent the year of 2017 fighting for my life, while fighting for my health care. I went to chemotherapy appointments and […]