Free Contraceptive Program = 40% Drop In Teen Birth Rate

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Providing contraceptives to teens at low or no cost is a win-win-win for Republicans i.e. less abortions for their evangie base, lowers taxes for their tax cutting base and-----and less funding for medicare and family planning clinics that most conservatives/Republicans seem to hate.

Q) Why are conservatives/Republicans in CO trying to kill this successful program?


Colorado claims contraceptive program caused big drop in teen birth rates
By Electa Draper
The Denver Post

A state health initiative to reduce teen birth rates by providing more than 30,000 contraceptive devices at low or no cost has led to a 40 percent drop in five years, Gov. John Hickenlooper said Thursday.

The Colorado Family Planning Initiative, funded by a private anonymous donor for five years, has provided intrauterine devices and other implants to low-income women at 68 family-planning clinics across Colorado since 2009.

The clinics are in local health departments, hospitals and private nonprofit facilities. The program also provided training and technical assistance to family planning clinics statewide.

"When families are planned and women have children when they're ready and want them ... it's really a better situation for everyone," Hickenlooper said during his state Capitol news conference.

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The family-planning program has saved $5.68 in Medicaid costs for every dollar spent on the contraceptives, the state said. The state has saved millions in health care expenditures — $42.5 million in public funds in 2010 alone based on the latest available data.

The decline improved Colorado's standing among states from having the 29th-lowest teen birth rate in 2008 to being ranked 19th among states and the District of Columbia in 2012.



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[SassyIrishLass]

Are they explaining the cancer risks to these teens? I doubt it

 

[JakeStarkey]

An assertion, SassyIrishChick, is not a rebuttal of anything. I thought you learned that at RouteIrish.

 

[bripat9643]

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Providing contraceptives to teens at low or no cost is a win-win-win for Republicans i.e. less abortions for their evangie base, lowers taxes for their tax cutting base and-----and less funding for medicare and family planning clinics that most conservatives/Republicans seem to hate.

Q) Why are conservatives/Republicans in CO trying to kill this successful program?


Colorado claims contraceptive program caused big drop in teen birth rates
By Electa Draper
The Denver Post

A state health initiative to reduce teen birth rates by providing more than 30,000 contraceptive devices at low or no cost has led to a 40 percent drop in five years, Gov. John Hickenlooper said Thursday.

The Colorado Family Planning Initiative, funded by a private anonymous donor for five years, has provided intrauterine devices and other implants to low-income women at 68 family-planning clinics across Colorado since 2009.

The clinics are in local health departments, hospitals and private nonprofit facilities. The program also provided training and technical assistance to family planning clinics statewide.

"When families are planned and women have children when they're ready and want them ... it's really a better situation for everyone," Hickenlooper said during his state Capitol news conference.

<snip>

The family-planning program has saved $5.68 in Medicaid costs for every dollar spent on the contraceptives, the state said. The state has saved millions in health care expenditures — $42.5 million in public funds in 2010 alone based on the latest available data.

The decline improved Colorado's standing among states from having the 29th-lowest teen birth rate in 2008 to being ranked 19th among states and the District of Columbia in 2012.



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Want to know how to reduce teen pregnancy by 90%? End welfare.

 

[konradv]

Are they explaining the cancer risks to these teens? I doubt it

All medical devices and drugs come with warnings about possible side effects.

 

[deltex1]

STDs up sharply...but at least fewer babies are murdered. Nothing like setting your moral standards high...

 

[konradv]

Want to know how to reduce teen pregnancy by 90%? End welfare.

Outlawing Viagra would be more effective. Ending welfare isn't going to stop anyone from fucking.

 

[deltex1]

Are they explaining the cancer risks to these teens? I doubt it

All medical devices and drugs come with warnings about possible side effects.

That's the second thing Trayvon does after he ejaculates...read da label, yo....

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Pass out that BC like candy. TY.

 

[rightwinger]

They should have converted ice cream trucks drive down the streets handing out free birth control

 

[PaintMyHouse]

They should have converted ice cream trucks drive down the streets handing out free birth control

Like it.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

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Providing contraceptives to teens at low or no cost is a win-win-win for Republicans i.e. less abortions for their evangie base, lowers taxes for their tax cutting base and-----and less funding for medicare and family planning clinics that most conservatives/Republicans seem to hate.

Q) Why are conservatives/Republicans in CO trying to kill this successful program?


Colorado claims contraceptive program caused big drop in teen birth rates
By Electa Draper
The Denver Post

A state health initiative to reduce teen birth rates by providing more than 30,000 contraceptive devices at low or no cost has led to a 40 percent drop in five years, Gov. John Hickenlooper said Thursday.

The Colorado Family Planning Initiative, funded by a private anonymous donor for five years, has provided intrauterine devices and other implants to low-income women at 68 family-planning clinics across Colorado since 2009.

The clinics are in local health departments, hospitals and private nonprofit facilities. The program also provided training and technical assistance to family planning clinics statewide.

"When families are planned and women have children when they're ready and want them ... it's really a better situation for everyone," Hickenlooper said during his state Capitol news conference.

<snip>

The family-planning program has saved $5.68 in Medicaid costs for every dollar spent on the contraceptives, the state said. The state has saved millions in health care expenditures — $42.5 million in public funds in 2010 alone based on the latest available data.

The decline improved Colorado's standing among states from having the 29th-lowest teen birth rate in 2008 to being ranked 19th among states and the District of Columbia in 2012.



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Its a real no-brainer but obviously, way over the heads of the usual suspects.

RWs will SAY they are against abortion and welfare but they will do anything they can to increase the birthrate of young girls.

For the right, its all about controlling women and if they can starve a child a long the way, that's a bonus.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Seems as though the Colorado legislature refused to fund it in the future. Maybe the anonymous donor will step up

 

[whitehall]

Funny how the prog left has managed to marginalize the killing of the unborn to ...how does that quote go... "the evangie base". Hip hop men and cowardly idiots ruin the lives of women by forcing them to hire someone to kill the unborn life inside them and the progs trivialize outrage at the mental and physical carnage that young women have to endure for the rest of their lives as as the "evangie base". Abortion is all about the hip hop and pop culture democrat party's war on women and sadly they don't even realize it until they are plagued with nightmares in their middle age.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

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Providing contraceptives to teens at low or no cost is a win-win-win for Republicans i.e. less abortions for their evangie base, lowers taxes for their tax cutting base and-----and less funding for medicare and family planning clinics that most conservatives/Republicans seem to hate.

Q) Why are conservatives/Republicans in CO trying to kill this successful program?


Colorado claims contraceptive program caused big drop in teen birth rates
By Electa Draper
The Denver Post

A state health initiative to reduce teen birth rates by providing more than 30,000 contraceptive devices at low or no cost has led to a 40 percent drop in five years, Gov. John Hickenlooper said Thursday.

The Colorado Family Planning Initiative, funded by a private anonymous donor for five years, has provided intrauterine devices and other implants to low-income women at 68 family-planning clinics across Colorado since 2009.

The clinics are in local health departments, hospitals and private nonprofit facilities. The program also provided training and technical assistance to family planning clinics statewide.

"When families are planned and women have children when they're ready and want them ... it's really a better situation for everyone," Hickenlooper said during his state Capitol news conference.

<snip>

The family-planning program has saved $5.68 in Medicaid costs for every dollar spent on the contraceptives, the state said. The state has saved millions in health care expenditures — $42.5 million in public funds in 2010 alone based on the latest available data.

The decline improved Colorado's standing among states from having the 29th-lowest teen birth rate in 2008 to being ranked 19th among states and the District of Columbia in 2012.



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Want to know how to reduce teen pregnancy by 90%? End welfare.

Oh please.

Even YOU know that's a stupid thing to say.

 

[deltex1]

They should have converted ice cream trucks drive down the streets handing out free birth control

And give out the answers to the common core exams also...no sense requiring the homies to be responsible..

 

[bripat9643]

Want to know how to reduce teen pregnancy by 90%? End welfare.

Outlawing Viagra would be more effective. Ending welfare isn't going to stop anyone from fucking.

Sure it is. If you think observing what happens to girls who to pregnant out of wedlock doesn't provide a powerful object lesson to other girls, then you're a fool - probably a liberal also.

 

[bripat9643]

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Providing contraceptives to teens at low or no cost is a win-win-win for Republicans i.e. less abortions for their evangie base, lowers taxes for their tax cutting base and-----and less funding for medicare and family planning clinics that most conservatives/Republicans seem to hate.

Q) Why are conservatives/Republicans in CO trying to kill this successful program?


Colorado claims contraceptive program caused big drop in teen birth rates
By Electa Draper
The Denver Post

A state health initiative to reduce teen birth rates by providing more than 30,000 contraceptive devices at low or no cost has led to a 40 percent drop in five years, Gov. John Hickenlooper said Thursday.

The Colorado Family Planning Initiative, funded by a private anonymous donor for five years, has provided intrauterine devices and other implants to low-income women at 68 family-planning clinics across Colorado since 2009.

The clinics are in local health departments, hospitals and private nonprofit facilities. The program also provided training and technical assistance to family planning clinics statewide.

"When families are planned and women have children when they're ready and want them ... it's really a better situation for everyone," Hickenlooper said during his state Capitol news conference.

<snip>

The family-planning program has saved $5.68 in Medicaid costs for every dollar spent on the contraceptives, the state said. The state has saved millions in health care expenditures — $42.5 million in public funds in 2010 alone based on the latest available data.

The decline improved Colorado's standing among states from having the 29th-lowest teen birth rate in 2008 to being ranked 19th among states and the District of Columbia in 2012.



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Want to know how to reduce teen pregnancy by 90%? End welfare.

Oh please.

Even YOU know that's a stupid thing to say.

It's so obviously true it doesn't even require any support.

 

[SwimExpert]

Are they explaining the cancer risks to these teens? I doubt it

Do you really think there is much anything you can do to stop teenagers from having sex? Just because nobody wanted to have sex with you as a teenager (or now), doesn't mean there is any logic or wisdom in you expecting the rest of the world to wholesale abandon normal human behavior.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Are they explaining the cancer risks to these teens? I doubt it

Do you really think there is much anything you can do to stop teenagers from having sex? Just because nobody wanted to have sex with you as a teenager (or now), doesn't mean there is any logic or wisdom in you expecting the rest of the world to wholesale abandon normal human behavior.

Dude go bother someone else, you tired jackass