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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsColorado Debates Whether IUDs Are Contraception Or Abortion
Women need to have control over their own bodies. We don't need the state in our bedrooms or with us in the exam room. Period.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/03/05/391030821/colorado-debates-whether-iuds-are-contraception-or-abortion?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150305
A popular contraception program in Colorado is receiving criticism from conservative lawmakers who say that the program's use of intrauterine devices, or IUDs, qualify as abortions.
More than 30,000 women in Colorado have gotten a device because of the state program, the Colorado Family Planning Initiative. An IUD normally costs between $500 and several thousand dollars. Through the program women could receive one for free.
This is because the program received a $23 million private grant in 2009 that has covered all its costs until now. To keep going, a group of bipartisan lawmakers are trying to push a bill through the Colorado Senate. But they're running into problems because of restrictions on what the state can and cannot fund.
State health director Larry Wolk says that the program has largely been a success. "Our teen birth rate has dropped 40 percent over the last four years," says Wolk. "The decline in teen births has been accompanied by a 34 percent drop in abortions among teens." A study published in Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health credited the changes to the free contraceptives.
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hobbit709
(41,694 posts)of the stupid there would far less of it.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)and convert said stupidity into clean energy we would have enough for 100,000 years and warp drive by next Festivus.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,355 posts)Are they really wondering if women using IUDs are having abortions all of the time? Really?
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Wait till preconception forms of contraception are labelled as "preconceptive abortions."
These medieval bastages need to go.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)handmade34
(22,755 posts)sick of the stupidity that exists out there... especially amongst our lawmakers
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)"Do women really NEED shoes?"
"Rationale for making kitchen leashes mandatory"
"Freshening your Republican harem"
"Stackable cages for Democratic domestic workers"
catbyte
(34,174 posts)Unfuckingbelievable.
Jerry442
(1,265 posts)Now I can, according to Hobby Lobby, demand that government cease any practice that I sincerely believe causes abortions, even things like making me get my car inspected or serving brussels sprouts in school lunches.
dbonds
(4,793 posts)It is not about the sanctity of life of a child. They don't like people having sex for anything but procreation.
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)It is not that they don't like people having sex for anything but procreation, it is that they can't stand the idea of women enjoying sex. Sex is supposed to be something that men enjoy and a tool for subjugating women. Remember the old double standard. Men who sleep with a number of women are 'studs' or 'Romeos'. Women who sleep with anybody at all are 'sluts' or 'loose' or 'easy'.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)VWolf
(3,944 posts)Slowly, but steadily.
LiberalLoner
(9,761 posts)riversedge
(69,727 posts)maindawg
(1,151 posts)Women hating , whatever, its the republican jackasses pandering to the RWNJ religious jackasses. There are alot of them. Obviously. And they have money. So a minority of idiots control the agenda. Colorado has a long history of prejudice and brutal suppression of minorities.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)the GOP move to do away with Public Education in 1982 has paid big dividends !
sheshe2
(83,355 posts)mountain grammy
(26,571 posts)With more than 50% turnout and these idiot fuckers took the Colorado Senate. I'm ashamed of my state.
sinkingfeeling
(51,279 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)ideas ARE doctors. Disgusts me to no end.
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)Doctors, especially specialists, about how IUDs work. They'd rather spread propaganda.