Teen Births In Colorado Dip 48 Percent Thanks To LARCs (haters want it gone!)

[niyad]

Teen Births In Colorado Dip 48 Percent Thanks To LARCs


Just five years since Colorado introduced an innovative family planning initiative providing little to no-cost long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) to low-income women in 68 clinics, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment announced a 48 percent decline in teen births and abortions statewide, effectively linking access to affordable reproductive care to low rates of unintended pregnancy.




Since 2009, the Colorado Family Planning Initiative, a five-year pilot program funded privately with a $25 million grant from the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, has provided more than 30,000 intrauterine devices (IUDs) and other LARC methods including hormonal implants to low-income and uninsured women across the state. According to data compiled by the Colorado Department of Public Health, both births and abortions among women aged 15-19 have been cut in half, decreasing by as much as 48 percent between 2009 and 2014.

Women ages 20-24 are seeing drops, too. In the last five years, the birth and abortion rates within their age group dropped by 20 percent and 18 percent respectively. Moreover, the program has saved Medicaid approximately $79 million in birth-related costs between 2010 and 2012, meaning for every dollar spent, the initiative has returned $5.85 back into the social safety net.

Unfortunately, some remain unconvinced of the initiative’s clear benefits. (one has to wonder what passes for thinking in their widdle woman-hating, gestational slaver heads!!!) In May, the Colorado Senate voted down a bill appropriating $5 million for the program, funding that would have sustained the program beyond the previous grant’s July expiration date. Several organizations have since pledged roughly $2 million to fund the program until June next year.

But according to Colorado’s chief medical officer and health department executive director Dr. Larry Wolk, the program’s effectiveness is undeniable. Given three-fourths of Colorado’s teen pregnancies are unintended, the need for increased access to affordable contraception could not be more critical. “This initiative continues to prove its effectiveness,” said Wolk. “Thousands of low-income Colorado women now are able to pursue their dreams of higher education and a good career and choose when and whether to start a family.”

http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/11/02/teen-births-in-colorado-dip-48-percent-thanks-to-larcs/

[mountain grammy]

1. Great and effective program.. therefore hated by Republicans.

They base their objection on their religious foolishness which tells them contraception is abortion, but we all know it's about controlling the lives of women.

[Jack Rabbit]

2. K/R

[Yallow]

3. GOP - Pro Birth / Anti - Life

Once the kid comes out, it can starve as far as Republicans are concerned.

Please treat all Republicans like vermin.

It won't help anything, but you will feel better......

[SoapBox]

4. Love the fetus, hate the child.

You beat me to it.

WTF is wrong with these freaks.

[Yallow]

5. And Sex Is Work And Can Not Be Enjoyed - EVER

In fact you are not supposed to look at your wife......

Cuz of Jeezus.

[forest444]

6. Plus, we need to add millions more to the hopeless underclass.

How else do they expect us to find all the willing cannon fodder we'll need for all our wars!

[niyad]

9. that whole "not looking at your wife" thing was beyond creepy, even for these cretins.

[forest444]

12. You might remember the "love" scene in Margaret Atwood's 'A Handmaid's Tale'.

When the book came out 30 years ago, and the Natasha Richardson movie a few years later, Republicans and even many Democrats thought she was nuts.

And now, here we are. Just imagine what they'll be like a generation from now.

[niyad]

13. even my imagination is not THAT good!!

[niyad]

8. if these gestational slavers actually cared about the fetus--pre-natal care would be

free and available everywhere.

[Yallow]

7. It's Not Like Jenna, Chelsea, or Barbara

are defending some foxhole somewhere.

Fighting is for the poor, with no other options.

[niyad]

10. well, the mic does need its cannon fodder and serfs.

[niyad]

11. . . .

[uppityperson]

14. K&r and thanks for posting so much in this forum

Women need to have some control over their reproductive system and we are going backwards to fast.