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Republicans kill successful birth-control program in Colorado

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Republicans kill successful birth-control program in Colorado | Denver Sun Times

Republicans in the Colorado Senate killed an effort this week to set aside funding for a birth control program that provides IUDs to low-income women. The Colorado Family Planning Initiative has been praised for contributing to a 40 percent drop in teen births over the last five years. The program, previously funded by a private donor, won an award in Washington, D.C. just days ago.
 
Looks like Colorado Republicans want to go with the Crane Public School in West Texas model of “Abstinence-Only” education... you know, the one where there was an eventual outbreak of Chlamydia.

In this case it appears they are looking for a sister idea that will balloon teen pregnancies.
 
Republicans will be republicans and assholes will be assholes. Sometimes, like in this instance the two are the same thing.
 
They do this because, you know, they want there to be fewer abortions. That makes sense, right?
 

the real question is if it was such a successful private program why did the govt take it over?
 
Got to say, that was one of the GOP's stupider moves... :doh
 
A 40% decrease is a huge accomplishment. Oh well, I hope they diverted the funds to welfare, snap, Medicaid, and childcare for the likely increase in teenage pregnancies. Yeah, I won't hold my breath.
 
Foolish is installing IUDs in teens, the most likely to have life threatening problems from IUDs.
 
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Crovax said:
the real question is if it was such a successful private program why did the govt take it over?
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The government was given a privately funded grant, the legislation would provide state funding, thus expanding the program.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
The government was given a privately funded grant, the legislation would provide state funding, thus expanding the program.
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if its so successful why do they need to extract money from taxpayers wont they voluntarily donate to such a worthy cause
 
americanwoman said:
Source?

This research shows it does not cause serious side effects.

http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/2...ption-option-for-teens-but-rarely-prescribed/
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https://nwhn.org/not-your-mother’s-iud-benefits-and-risks-modern-iuds


Only studies done after this ignore the risks. In fact there is currently a class action suit against one maker (Mirena). I suspect this is another government con job. They're willing to accept a percentage of problems as long as they can control the herd.
 
Crovax said:
the real question is if it was such a successful private program why did the govt take it over?
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it was funded by a private donor but wasn't a private program.
 
Crovax said:
if its so successful why do they need to extract money from taxpayers wont they voluntarily donate to such a worthy cause
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Because they want to EXPAND the program. The private grant money only goes so far.
 
Crovax said:
if its so successful why do they need to extract money from taxpayers wont they voluntarily donate to such a worthy cause
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the same reason we need to extract money from taxpayers to build roads and pay for police.
 
So dumb...on multiple levels.

I wonder how many prevented unwanted pregnancies by low income individuals pays for the cost of the program?
 
bg85 said:
the same reason we need to extract money from taxpayers to build roads and pay for police.
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Roads and police are infrastructure, giving iuds to poor people is charity.
 
The government shouldn't be paying for a woman's private birth control. If she's poor she can get of medicaid and have the state pay for it via insurance. This whole entitlement to free birth control is wrong. Manage your own reproductive health and foot your own bill. Why waste money here when it can go to managing chronic disease or life threatening health problems?
 
Crovax said:
Roads and police are infrastructure, giving iuds to poor people is charity.
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okay that's fine, but it's still the correct answer to your question. we extract money from taxpayers for all sorts of things that advance the public interest. you may or may not agree with taxation on certain things but if you ask the question you should expect an answer.
 
I may be confused, but I don't read anywhere that they killed the program, just that the killed public funding that it never had?
 
iliveonramen said:
So dumb...on multiple levels.

I wonder how many prevented unwanted pregnancies by low income individuals pays for the cost of the program?
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I wonder how much cheaper it would be to have personal responsibility
 

great! but let's say that giving poor women birth control actually saved the state money in the long run through lower welfare payments and health care for children from unwanted pregnancies. let's just assume that that's the case. would you then be in support of giving out free birth control?

you're just looking at the issue from one perspective. of course any human being should be able to manage their own reproductive care, but if it's better for everyone to just give it to them for free, then why not? I suppose you could say that if we give it to them for free, they'll never learn the error of their ways, but I really don't believe that just letting a problem get worse is the best way to handle that problem.
 

I did expect an answer what you gave me was a deflection

care to try again, why should the govt fund charity that has been proven to be successful with private funding?
 
Crovax said:
I wonder how much cheaper it would be to have personal responsibility
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it would be a lot cheaper of course! but what if we're talking about a population that lacks personal responsibility? shouldn't the rest of the citizens find ways to alleviate that so that we don't have to support their unwanted children with our tax dollars?
 
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