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Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 07:42 AM Mar 2015

Colorado 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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Colorado Debates Whether IUDs Are Contraception Or Abortion (Original Post) Skidmore Mar 2015 OP
If stupid was immediately and excruciatingly painful to the stupid instead of the observers hobbit709 Mar 2015 #1
Yep. If we could harness our near-infinite national reserves of stupidity hifiguy Mar 2015 #21
So Proud Liberal Dem Mar 2015 #2
Yup. They are. Adrahil Mar 2015 #3
Agreed. Off with their heads! pangaia Mar 2015 #9
LOL.... I was thinking elections, but hey, I'm open-minded! n/t Adrahil Mar 2015 #10
I am so handmade34 Mar 2015 #4
Next on ALEC's legislative agenda: gregcrawford Mar 2015 #5
Oh, Jesus H. Christ. catbyte Mar 2015 #6
SCOTUS opened this door with the ridiculous Hobby Lobby decision. Jerry442 Mar 2015 #7
Their goal all along is to make sex have consequences dbonds Mar 2015 #8
I'd take it one step further. Stonepounder Mar 2015 #12
this is alarming... makes me think of Atwood's book "The Handmaid's Tale" ... secondwind Mar 2015 #11
We're getting there VWolf Mar 2015 #13
Not even all that slowly... LiberalLoner Mar 2015 #20
We elect stupid idiots to be lawmakers!! who are dangerous examples for our kids.. riversedge Mar 2015 #14
call it what you want maindawg Mar 2015 #15
say what you will,,,,, Cryptoad Mar 2015 #16
Agreed, Skidmore! sheshe2 Mar 2015 #17
we had a mail in election mountain grammy Mar 2015 #18
What I really love is all these lawmakers who know more than scientists and doctors. sinkingfeeling Mar 2015 #19
The sad thing is that some of those lawmakers (at least nationally) who advance these Skidmore Mar 2015 #23
Stupid politicians refuse to listen to Ilsa Mar 2015 #22

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
1. If stupid was immediately and excruciatingly painful to the stupid instead of the observers
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 07:47 AM
Mar 2015

of the stupid there would far less of it.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
21. Yep. If we could harness our near-infinite national reserves of stupidity
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 09:56 PM
Mar 2015

and convert said stupidity into clean energy we would have enough for 100,000 years and warp drive by next Festivus.

 

Adrahil

(13,340 posts)
3. Yup. They are.
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 08:19 AM
Mar 2015

Wait till preconception forms of contraception are labelled as "preconceptive abortions."

These medieval bastages need to go.

gregcrawford

(2,382 posts)
5. Next on ALEC's legislative agenda:
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 09:08 AM
Mar 2015

"Do women really NEED shoes?"

"Rationale for making kitchen leashes mandatory"

"Freshening your Republican harem"

"Stackable cages for Democratic domestic workers"

Jerry442

(1,265 posts)
7. SCOTUS opened this door with the ridiculous Hobby Lobby decision.
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 09:13 AM
Mar 2015

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)
8. Their goal all along is to make sex have consequences
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 09:26 AM
Mar 2015

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)
12. I'd take it one step further.
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 09:47 AM
Mar 2015

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'.

 

maindawg

(1,151 posts)
15. call it what you want
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 10:16 AM
Mar 2015

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.

sheshe2

(83,355 posts)
17. Agreed, Skidmore!
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 10:23 AM
Mar 2015
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.

mountain grammy

(26,571 posts)
18. we had a mail in election
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 10:23 AM
Mar 2015

With more than 50% turnout and these idiot fuckers took the Colorado Senate. I'm ashamed of my state.

Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
23. The sad thing is that some of those lawmakers (at least nationally) who advance these
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 10:01 PM
Mar 2015

ideas ARE doctors. Disgusts me to no end.

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
22. Stupid politicians refuse to listen to
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 10:00 PM
Mar 2015

Doctors, especially specialists, about how IUDs work. They'd rather spread propaganda.

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