GOP Plan to Increase Abortions in Colorado

[InTheLight]

Over the past seven years, Colorado has run an experiment to see if it could lower the rate of unintended pregnancies, cut abortions – and save the state government some money, too. In July the governor’s office issued a glowing press release, crediting the program with a 40% statewide drop in teen birth rates between 2009 and 2013 – and a 35% drop in abortions.

But, despite the program’s widely reported successes, last Wednesday Colorado’s Republican-controlled senate killed a bill that would sustain and expand CFPI services.

“If you’re anti-abortion and also a fiscal conservative, I think this is a win-win situation for you,” Don Coram, a conservative Republican in the Colorado House who supported the bill, told NPR. But, two days later, the bill was shut down in senate committee.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/06/colorado-contraception-family-planning-republicans

 

[Zaac]

Over the past seven years, Colorado has run an experiment to see if it could lower the rate of unintended pregnancies, cut abortions – and save the state government some money, too. In July the governor’s office issued a glowing press release, crediting the program with a 40% statewide drop in teen birth rates between 2009 and 2013 – and a 35% drop in abortions.

But, despite the program’s widely reported successes, last Wednesday Colorado’s Republican-controlled senate killed a bill that would sustain and expand CFPI services.

“If you’re anti-abortion and also a fiscal conservative, I think this is a win-win situation for you,” Don Coram, a conservative Republican in the Colorado House who supported the bill, told NPR. But, two days later, the bill was shut down in senate committee.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/06/colorado-contraception-family-planning-republicans

Interesting. I think , again, that this lends credence to the GOP only using abortion as a political issue, and most of them don't really give a rip about the morality/immorality.

 

[777]

Oh, this thing again. Well, the program never was all that:

http://www.nationalreview.com/agend...s-teen-pregnancy-rate-40-percent-callie-gable

It was never a big program in the first place and all that happened here was that the private entity that was funding CFPI stopped it because it was an echo of Obamacare. Now, they want $5M from the taxpayers there for a redundant program.