07-25-2014, 04:32 PM
BIRTH CONTROL SUCCESS IN COLORADO
While anti-abortionists across the country are working to make it more difficult to get abortions by closing down facilities that also provide family planning and birth control services (thereby creating a need for more abortions by overworked doctors, IMO -- nuts), Colorado has gone in the opposite direction with impressive results.
The good news:
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Gov. John Hickenlooper announced that the teen birth rate in Colorado dropped 40 percent from 2009 through 2013, driven by a Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment initiative that helps low-income women get long-acting reversible contraceptives.
“Unintended pregnancies, especially among teenagers, carry health risks for mother and baby,” said Dr. Larry Wolk, department executive director and chief medical officer. “Our Colorado Family Planning Initiative has helped thousands of young women who weren’t ready to have children avoid pregnancy with affordable, safe and effective contraceptives.”
The Colorado Family Planning Initiative has provided more than 30,000 intrauterine devices (IUDs) or implants at low or no cost to low-income women at 68 family planning clinics across Colorado since 2009. The decline in births among young women served by these agencies accounted for three-quarters of the overall decline in the Colorado teen birth rate.
“This initiative has saved Colorado millions of dollars,” said Gov. Hickenlooper. “But more importantly, it has helped thousands of young Colorado women continue their education, pursue their professional goals and postpone pregnancy until they are ready to start a family.”
Full report: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?c=P...BONWrapper
While anti-abortionists across the country are working to make it more difficult to get abortions by closing down facilities that also provide family planning and birth control services (thereby creating a need for more abortions by overworked doctors, IMO -- nuts), Colorado has gone in the opposite direction with impressive results.
The good news:
Snip:
Gov. John Hickenlooper announced that the teen birth rate in Colorado dropped 40 percent from 2009 through 2013, driven by a Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment initiative that helps low-income women get long-acting reversible contraceptives.
“Unintended pregnancies, especially among teenagers, carry health risks for mother and baby,” said Dr. Larry Wolk, department executive director and chief medical officer. “Our Colorado Family Planning Initiative has helped thousands of young women who weren’t ready to have children avoid pregnancy with affordable, safe and effective contraceptives.”
The Colorado Family Planning Initiative has provided more than 30,000 intrauterine devices (IUDs) or implants at low or no cost to low-income women at 68 family planning clinics across Colorado since 2009. The decline in births among young women served by these agencies accounted for three-quarters of the overall decline in the Colorado teen birth rate.
“This initiative has saved Colorado millions of dollars,” said Gov. Hickenlooper. “But more importantly, it has helped thousands of young Colorado women continue their education, pursue their professional goals and postpone pregnancy until they are ready to start a family.”
Full report: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?c=P...BONWrapper