Colorado's birth control program kept afloat by $2M in temporary funds

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Roughly $2 million has been pledged in temporary funding to keep afloat a hot-button Colorado program that provides long-acting reversible contraceptives to low-income and uninsured teenagers and women.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment on Tuesday announced the funding for the Colorado Family Planning Initiative in a news release.

Officials say money for the initiative, which is aimed at reducing teen pregnancy and abortion rates, is coming from more than a dozen organizations.

Over the past seven years, a private foundation donated about $27 million to boost the program, but the grant money expired July 1. A push to use state taxpayer dollars to continue the program failed in the Republican-led state Senate earlier this year, killed by ideological and fiscal objections.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_28699520/colorados-birth-control-program-kept-afloat-by-2m

wildly successful program and the pukes blocked funding for it last session.

[Ilsa]

1. The program pays for itself in the short-run and

the long-run. It should be a no-brainer to say "Yes" to. But we all know the Republicans have no brains.