Ignorant Colorado GOPer opposes anti-poverty birth control program

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A Republican Colorado lawmaker is opposing efforts to continue an anti-poverty program that provides IUDs to poor women because he believes the birth control method to be an “abortifacient” that would stop “a small child from implanting.”

The Coloradoan reported that Democratic state Rep. KC Becker was sponsoring a bill in hope of finding funds to make sure that low-income women continue to be able to receive long-acting reversible contraception, like IUDs.

The Family Planning Initiative pilot program had been funded by a $25 million grant from an anonymous donor. It worked so well that the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) estimated that the teen birth rate was down by 40 percent, resulting in $23 million in savings in Medicaid assistance to women and children.

More from RawStory:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/colorado-goper-opposes-anti-poverty-birth-control-program-iuds-stop-a-small-child-from-implanting/

The willfully ignorant never let facts get in the way. After all, the potential in a few cells are ever so more important than the woman who hosts them...