2021 Colorado Code
Title 13 - Courts and Court Procedure
Article 22 - Age of Competence - Arbitration - Mediation
Part 7 - Colorado Parental Notification Act
§ 13-22-702. Legislative Declaration

1. The people of the state of Colorado, pursuant to the powers reserved to them in Article V of the Constitution of the state of Colorado, declare that family life and the preservation of the traditional family unit are of vital importance to the continuation of an orderly society; that the rights of parents to rear and nurture their children during their formative years and to be involved in all decisions of importance affecting such minor children should be protected and encouraged, especially as such parental involvement relates to the pregnancy of an unemancipated minor, recognizing that the decision by any such minor to submit to an abortion may have adverse long-term consequences for her.
2. The people of the state of Colorado, being mindful of the limitations imposed upon them at the present time by the federal judiciary in the preservation of the parent-child relationship, hereby enact into law the following provisions.

History. Source: L. 2018: Entire part added with relocations,(SB 18-032), ch. 8, p. 145, § 1, effective October 1.

This section is similar to former § 12-37.5-102 as it existed prior to 2018.

The legislative declaration of the Colorado Parental Notification Act does not provide any positive indication that the act should be interpreted in conjunction with the Colorado Children's Code to protect the health of a minor. Planned Parenthood of Rocky Mtns. Servs. Corp. v. Owens, 107 F. Supp. 2d 1271 (D. Colo. 2000 ), aff'd on other grounds, 287 F.3d 910 (10th Cir. 2002) (decided under former law).