Colorado GOPers claim IUDs cause abortions, scrap program that reduced teen birthrate by 40 percent [View all]

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Republicans on a Colorado state Senate committee this week voted to end a contraception program that proponents said had helped to reduce the teen birthrate by 40 percent in recent years.

“Senate Republicans on the State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee defeated legislation to continue the Long Acting Reversible Contraception or ‘LARC’ program, a bipartisan bill to reduce unintended pregnancies and abortions,” a statement from Democratic state Sen. Mary Hodge noted on Wednesday.

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“The program was effective, helping the teen birth rate in Colorado drop 40 percent from 2009 through 2013,” according to the statement. “The abortion rate also dropped 42 percent in that same time period.”

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The Denver Post reported that some members of the Republican caucus had referred to IUDs as an abortifacient, even though this conclusion has been repeatedly rejected by the scientific community.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/colorado-gopers-claim-iuds-cause-abortions-scrap-program-that-reduced-teen-birthrate-by-40-percent/

You really should read the other couple of paragraphs in this story. They introduced a few other bills that defy science, common sense, and a woman's rights.