COLORADO – Today, U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper welcomed Planned Parenthood Action Fund’s endorsement of his 2026 Senate reelection campaign.
Planned Parenthood solidifies the Hickenlooper campaign’s status as the unanimous choice of leading progressive advocates, with endorsements from Brady PAC, GIFFORDS PAC, End Citizens United and Let America Vote, League of Conservation Voters Action Fund and Conservation Colorado, and 314 Action.
“Our fight for a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions is far from over,” said Hickenlooper. “Millions of women in America now have less rights and worse access to reproductive health care than they did four years ago. We won’t let extreme MAGA Republicans pull us backwards. We need to overturn the Dobbs decision, protect abortion access, and keep mifepristone safe and accessible.”
“Senator Hickenlooper knows the federal government has no business making personal health decisions for us,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, President & CEO of Planned Parenthood Action Fund. “As governor, he helped expand Coloradans’ access to reproductive health care, including by investing in clinics in rural and underserved areas. In the Senate, he’s fighting back against Republicans’ attempts to establish a backdoor abortion ban by permanently ‘defunding’ Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood Action Fund is proud to endorse John Hickenlooper for U.S. Senate because he’s one of Colorado’s strongest advocates for reproductive freedom, and he won’t stop fighting until we all can get the care we deserve.”
Planned Parenthood Action Fund previously endorsed Hickenlooper’s campaign in 2020 when he flipped Colorado’s seat blue.
Hickenlooper has long fought for women’s reproductive health care. As governor, he signed a law to allow patients to fill birth control prescriptions for a full-year, expanding access to reproductive health care for thousands of Coloradans.
In the Senate, he’s fought back against Republicans’ “Big Ugly Betrayal Act,” which will restrict Americans’ access to safe and affordable reproductive health care and attacks Planned Parenthood. He helped introduce the Protecting Health Care and Lowering Costs Act and the Restoring Essential Health Care Act to repeal all of the provisions in the health section of the Republicans’ dangerous bill as well as the provision that defunds Planned Parenthood.
Hickenlooper co-sponsors the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would enshrine Roe v. Wade into law. He helped introduce the Stop Comstock Act to repeal arcane language in the Comstock Act of 1873, which anti-abortion activists have threatened to invoke to effectively end access to medication abortion without a single act of Congress. He also introduced the Protect IVF Act to create nationwide access to IVF and prevent state-level efforts to block access to IVF treatment.
He supported and campaigned for Amendment 79 to secure abortion rights into Colorado’s state constitution.
Planned Parenthood Action Fund is an independent, nonpartisan, not-for-profit membership organization formed as the advocacy and political arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The Action Fund engages in educational, advocacy and electoral activity, including grassroots organizing, legislative advocacy, and voter education.
