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Panich52

(5,829 posts)
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 03:07 PM Jan 2015

Ignorant Colorado GOPer opposes anti-poverty birth control program

A Republican Colorado lawmaker is opposing efforts to continue an anti-poverty program that provides IUDs to poor women because he believes the birth control method to be an “abortifacient” that would stop “a small child from implanting.”

The Coloradoan reported that Democratic state Rep. KC Becker was sponsoring a bill in hope of finding funds to make sure that low-income women continue to be able to receive long-acting reversible contraception, like IUDs.

The Family Planning Initiative pilot program had been funded by a $25 million grant from an anonymous donor. It worked so well that the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) estimated that the teen birth rate was down by 40 percent, resulting in $23 million in savings in Medicaid assistance to women and children.

More from RawStory:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/colorado-goper-opposes-anti-poverty-birth-control-program-iuds-stop-a-small-child-from-implanting/

The willfully ignorant never let facts get in the way. After all, the potential in a few cells are ever so more important than the woman who hosts them...

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Ignorant Colorado GOPer opposes anti-poverty birth control program (Original Post) Panich52 Jan 2015 OP
Good grief shenmue Jan 2015 #1
kevin lundberg can go fuck himself fizzgig Jan 2015 #2

shenmue

(38,501 posts)
1. Good grief
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 03:15 PM
Jan 2015

Will these idiots stop at nothing? It is a lie, it is totally inaccurate, but they still want it!

Damn them!

fizzgig

(24,146 posts)
2. kevin lundberg can go fuck himself
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 03:31 PM
Jan 2015

i voted against him a few times and have been sick of his shit for years.

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