By Kate Quiñones
Denver, Colo., Apr 12, 2025 / 11:00 am
When Beverly Jacobson was five months pregnant, the doctors told her she should have an abortion. Jacobson’s daughter, Verity, had Edwards syndrome, a developmental condition that their specialist said was “incompatible with life.”
“He went on to say that if she survived, she would be a drain on the family mentally, emotionally, and financially,” Jacobson said on Friday.
But he was wrong. On Friday, Verity joined her mom on the steps of the state capitol as Jacobson addressed the Colorado March for Life.
“She is a gift from God,” Jacobson told the crowd of 3,500 pro-lifers gathered at the steps of the capitol building.
Jacobson has since founded a nonprofit called Mama Bear Care to support mothers and families who receive difficult pregnancy diagnoses.
The Colorado March for Life is one of 19 state marches run by the March for Life taking place this year. Colorado’s was organized jointly by the March for Life and Pro-Life Colorado.
Colorado — historically one of the most pro-abortion states in the country — just passed an abortion funding bill.
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If signed by the governor, $1.5 million in public funding would go to abortion annually for a program proponents say would save the government money by “averting births.”
During her speech, Tamra Axworthy, head of ACPC Life Services and Women’s Clinic, called the bill “eugenics disguised as public policy.”
Instead of supporting mothers and valuing life, “our lawmakers have decided that the cheaper option is to eliminate children before their first breath,” she said.
“That is not compassion. That is not justice.”
Pam Behler, the head of local pregnancy resource center My Choice Resource Center, shared that two young women recently came straight to the clinic from Planned Parenthood thanks to local pro-life sidewalk counselors.
One had come all the way to Vail, a mountain town, to have the abortion, but when she found out she was 13 weeks pregnant she came to the center and got an ultrasound.
“She was so happy,” Behler recalled.
Another young woman had been told she couldn’t do an ultrasound at Planned Parenthood unless she had an abortion.
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“We’re just praying, praying, praying for her to keep the baby,” Behler said.
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