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Lawmaker asks Colorado to pay for IUD program
Health experts call it a wildly successful poverty-fighting measure and a good return on investment.
Others are adamantly opposed to the idea that the state would provide long-acting contraception to low-income women.
State Rep. KC Becker, D-Boulder, said she’s working to wrangle commitments for a bill that includes using $5 million from the state’s general fund to pay for a previously gifted program that helps low-income women gain access to long-acting reversible contraception, such as intrauterine devices, or IUDs.
“When you’re talking about birth control and long-acting reversible contraceptives being birth control, it has the potential to be political rather than clinical,” said Dr. Larry Wolk, executive director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, or CDPHE. “I hope that’s not the case, and I think we have some good bipartisan support.”
Others are adamantly opposed to the idea that the state would provide long-acting contraception to low-income women.
State Rep. KC Becker, D-Boulder, said she’s working to wrangle commitments for a bill that includes using $5 million from the state’s general fund to pay for a previously gifted program that helps low-income women gain access to long-acting reversible contraception, such as intrauterine devices, or IUDs.
“When you’re talking about birth control and long-acting reversible contraceptives being birth control, it has the potential to be political rather than clinical,” said Dr. Larry Wolk, executive director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, or CDPHE. “I hope that’s not the case, and I think we have some good bipartisan support.”
from the coloradoan
i can hear the wingnuts howling now.