(The Center Square) – Colorado must pay back legal fees after it was sued for a law banning abortion pill reversals, a federal court ruled this week.
The state will pay $5.4 million in attorneys’ fees to Becket, a nonprofit legal advocacy group, which represented a Denver-area Catholic crisis pregnancy center in the lawsuit against the state.
Rebekah Ricketts, senior counsel at Becket and an attorney for Bella Health and Wellness, spoke with The Center Square in an exclusive interview regarding the ruling.
“Colorado enacted a law banning doctors and nurses from offering life-saving care to women who have taken the first abortion pill but then decide to continue their pregnancies,” Ricketts explained. “A federal court blocked the law, holding that Colorado’s law was unconstitutional.”
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