Legislative Assault on Freedom, Medical Autonomy, and the Unborn

On this March 28, 2023 broadcast, Kim Monson examines how Colorado legislators are advancing policies that threaten individual liberty on multiple fronts. The show features Roger Hays of Passio HR analyzing the legislative session’s anti-business agenda, Matt Dark of Roots Medical discussing right-to-refuse lawsuits against COVID vaccine mandates, and Diane Ferraro of Save the Storks exposing the dangers of Senate Bills 188, 189, and 190 targeting pro-life pregnancy centers.

Colorado’s Legislative War on Business and Workers

Start listening at 32:15 – Hour 1

In this segment, Roger Hays, CEO of Passio HR, joins Kim to discuss the overwhelming burden Colorado’s legislature is placing on businesses. With 555 new bills introduced and six to seven weeks remaining in the session, Hays warns that lawmakers are treating the unemployment trust fund as a slush fund for unrelated social programs.

Hays explains that multiple bills seek to redirect unemployment insurance money to fund programs for dependents of workers who have never held jobs themselves. He describes this as an attempt to expand welfare under the guise of worker protections. The Equal Pay for Equal Work bill (SB 105) exemplifies how legislators use compassionate-sounding titles to advance trial lawyer interests, with nearly every new labor bill containing private right of action provisions that enable lawsuits against small businesses.

Hays emphasizes that the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association wields enormous power at the Capitol, pushing legislation that forces small businesses into expensive settlements rather than legitimate dispute resolution through regulatory channels.

“Our legislature seems to think that the unemployment trust fund is a place where they can just go dip in and grab cash.”

Roger Hays, CEO of Passio HR

Medical Freedom and the Right to Refuse

Start listening at 61:16 – Hour 2

Following the tragic Nashville school shooting, Matt Dark of Roots Medical connects the dots between society’s endorsement of mental illness through transgender ideology and its devastating consequences. Dark calls for Christians and conservatives to stop being passive and to call out child abuse when they see it.

Dark then details the right-to-refuse lawsuits being filed through ColoradoMedicalFreedom.com against hospital systems like UC Health. He explains that all COVID shots remain classified as investigational new drugs under HHS guidelines, which means every person has the legal right to refuse participation in medical research under the 1974 National Research Act. Dark describes cases of nurses fired for refusing the shots, single mothers who lost their jobs trying to feed their children, and vaccine-injured individuals who now require financial compensation.

The lawsuits aim to hold accountable organizations that imposed penalties for refusing medical research participation, a violation of established medical ethics laws dating back to the Nuremberg trials and the Belmont Report.

“It is time to rise up in the name of Jesus. And when you see evil like the abuse of children and this transgender ideology that is all over, it is time to rise up and call that behavior out.”

Matt Dark, Host of The Matt Dark Show

Colorado’s Extreme Abortion Legislation Exposed

Start listening at 72:09 – Hour 2

Diane Ferraro, CEO of Save the Storks, joins Kim on the very day the state legislature is holding final hearings on Senate Bills 188, 189, and 190. Ferraro explains that SB 188 dangerously intertwines LGBTQ gender-affirming care with abortion services, allowing children to undergo gender transition procedures without parental knowledge using taxpayer dollars.

SB 189 provides funding for abortion and HIV treatments while eliminating parental notification requirements for minors seeking abortions. Most alarming is SB 190, which Ferraro describes as an attack on pregnancy resource centers and an attempt to make abortion pill reversal illegal in Colorado. She notes that progesterone treatment has been safely used in pregnancy for over 50 years, including to prevent miscarriages.

Ferraro warns that making this treatment illegal would prevent doctors from saving pregnancies even when a woman is naturally miscarrying. She reveals that sex traffickers could exploit these laws to bring children into Colorado for gender procedures, profiting from the state’s elimination of parental consent requirements. Ferraro describes how Planned Parenthood generated $47 million in revenue with $27 million from patient fees, exposing the profit motive behind the abortion industry’s opposition to pregnancy resource centers.

“There will be sex traffickers who bring children into our state to have, in quotation marks, gender-affirming health care services. Because, frankly, if they feel like they can make more money off of a boy versus a girl or vice versa, they can do that in our state.”

Diane Ferraro, CEO of Save the Storks