Rep. Bottoms’ HB 1145, prohibiting trafficking of minors into state for reproductive services, killed in committee
By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice
Rep. Scott Bottoms may have learned Tuesday that perception is indeed reality.
Despite multiple attempts to position his House Bill 25-1145 as another attempt to hold accountable child traffickers he has witnessed operating over two decades, his bill was shredded in the House's Judiciary Committee for surface concerns it was rather an anti-abortion, anti-transgender bill.
"This is a bill trying to stop trafficking and the abuse of our children," said Bottoms, a Colorado Springs pastor. "This is another shot at just trying to put these people in jail."
The bill would prohibit the taking, or trafficking, of a minor across state lines into Colorado for the purpose of reproductive health-care services. It was postponed indefinitely by a 7-4 pa...